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Follow-up Activities
In close cooperation with INT WG, the System Operations de-
partment at ENTSOG continued to assist ACER and the EC
until INT NC passed through comitology. During preparations
for the comitology process, ENTSOG provided advice and
support to the participating parties. This consisted of holding
additional trilateral meetings and acting as a consultant to the
formal Gas Committee sessions.
The first comitology meeting was held from 10–11 July. The
main topics discussed by the member states and European
Commission were:
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Scope of the code, which generally focuses on intercon-
nection points but also addresses virtual trading points
and hub operators in terms of data exchange
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The use of a lesser rule in the matching process that
could be a contradiction to the restrictions of nomina-
tion rights when ‘use-it-or-lose-it’ (UIOLI) congestion
management is applied
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Plans to draft an Interconnection Agreement template
in 2015
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Possible adoption of CEN units (MJ, kPa, K) and
reference conditions (15°C/15°C).
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Odourisation chapter, which required some changes in
timing, rules, impact assessment and share of the costs
after failing to be approved by the member states.
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Refinement of data exchange chapters
The network code was approved by the Gas Committee during
the second comitology meeting, which was held from
3–4 November.
The main changes to the initially submitted version of
INT NC were:
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An additional task assigned to ENTSOG was to develop
and publish an Interconnection Agreement Template
on the ENTSOG website taking into account ACER’s
reasoned opinion, due by the end of 2015
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Monitoring of implementation is now mentioned in
recital and in a dedicated article that sets specific
deadlines. ENTSOG is to receive the mandatory terms
of Interconnection Agreements concluded or amended
after INT NC is applicable (May 2016).
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Matching process was amended to make CMP rules
prevail over the lesser rule
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The Units chapter gives an exemption allowing other
reference conditions where one member state is
connected to only one other member state, and where
the parties and National Authorities agree
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Long term gas quality monitoring to be published
together with TYNDP. This has to be delivered for the
first time in 2017
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If parties fail to agree on odourisation practises within
six months and also fail to define a suitable plan for a
cost-effective solution within the following twelve
months, non-odourised gas will apply within four years.
Once the technical realisation of non-odourised gas is
complete, TSOs shall accept reducing residual amounts
of odourants in cross-border flows where necessary.
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Data exchange rules apply to network users active at
interconnection points or virtual trading points as well
as to REMIT.
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