ENTSOG BAL NC Monitoring Report 2016

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2 Information Sources

and Data Collection

ENTSOG sent a questionnaire on implementation monitoring of

NC BAL on 2 December 2016 to TSOs of the 22 EU countries

(AT, BE, BG, CZ, DE, DK, EL, ES, FR, HU, HR, IE, IT, LT, NL, PL,

PT, SE, SI, SK, RO, UK)

where the NC BAL applies and to those

countries holding derogation on the basis of Article 49 of Directive

2009/73/EC (Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Luxembourg and

Malta).

3) UK is mentioned as UK-GB and UK-NI due to two different balancing regimes.

Voluntary responses were received from Luxem-

bourg and a voluntary partial response from

Estonia. Thus data has been gathered from a to-

tal of 25 countries including Estonia (AT, BE/LU,

BG, CZ, DE, DK, EL, ES, FR, HU, HR, IE, IT, LT,

NL, PL, PT, SE, SI, SK, RO, UK-GB and UK-NI).

(Further details are provided in

This report uses the information provided by

TSOs in each EU country as a data basis. Some

TSOs indicated that their responses to the ques-

tionnaire were provided in cooperation with their

respective NRA.

The following section presents the implementa-

tion status of NC BAL by 1 October 2016 and a

summary of the main results. Specific comments

and explanations are shown where relevant.

Some more detailed information provided by the

TSOs for each country is shown in the annexes to

the report.

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