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Local Issuing Office for EIC scheme
ENTSOG operates a local issuing office (LIO) for Energy Iden-
tification Codes (EICs) for the international gas market since
March 2013. Since that date more than 350 codes have been
issued for interconnection points, parties and gas installations
such as storage facilities and LNG terminal plants. The System
Operations department administers, validates and publishes
EICs in close cooperation with ENTSO-E.
To improve LIO services, ENTSOG began by defining specifi-
cations for an EIC management tool. The goal of this tool is to
eliminate the impact of human error and thus make the LIO
office more efficient and effective. Interested members who
operate a LIO will be able to use this tool by May–June 2015.
In 2014, ENTSOG participated in a task force for reviewing
and adapting the EIC reference manual. This manual con-
tains the rules and procedures for allocating EICs in compli-
ance with additional requirements imposed by REMIT for the
identification of market participants. The revised procedures
will be implemented during 2015.
Support for other groups
TSAIG, BR KG and INT WG supported BAL WG and CAM WG
in their development of business requirement specifications
documents for Common Network Operation Tools (CNOTs).
Once created, these will help TSOs and other market players
to implement the respective network codes. The final busi-
ness requirement specifications for BAL and CAM NCs were
presented on 25 February 2014.
Common Network Operation Tools
The purpose of the Common Network Operation Tools is to
define Business Requirements Specifications and Message
Implementation Guidelines for business processes developed
under Regulation (EC) No 715/2009 and to support other
working groups (CAM, Balancing) in developing these com-
mon tools.
Implementation Rules for Common Data
Exchange Protocol
In 2013, ENTSOG’s ITC KG defined the usage profile of
document-based data exchange for AS4. From March until
August 2014, a proof-of-concept (PoC) was performed by six
parties: four TSOs and two network users. The results of the
PoC were presented at a workshop on 9 September 2014
where all market participants, solution providers, regulators
and other industry sectors (IATA) participated. Wherever
necessary, the AS4 usage profile document was adapted in
compliance with the PoC results.
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