ENTSOG Annual Report 2015

Market Area Activities in 2015

CAPACITY WORKING GROUP

Capacity Allocation Mechanisms

CAMNC came into effect in November 2013 with an imple-

mentation date of 1 November 2015. In 2015, ENTSOG

voluntarily facilitated the early implementation of CAMNC

via the ACER/ENTSOG CAM Roadmap publication and

related workshop.

In Q4/2015, ENTSOG launched an implementation moni-

toring process for CAMNC. This monitoring is required by

Article 8 (8) of Regulation (EC) No 715/2009. ENTSOG

launched the process in order to ensure timely publication

of results in 2015 Annual Report. In addition to implement-

ing monitoring tasks, ENTSOG has also developed Business

Requirements Specifications for CAMNC.

EFET and ENTSOG began a dialogue process in an ad-hoc

joint work stream. The aim was to identify and resolve poten-

tial issues related to the introduction of capacity bundling

before more long-term bundled products are offered. The is-

sues identified in the dialogue between EFET and ENTSOG

were jointly presented at the XXVII Madrid Forum and wel-

comed by participants. Afterwards, EFET and ENTSOG

opened discussion to all stakeholders including national

regulatory authorities and the European Commission.

As a result of the joint EFET/ENTSOG workshops in 2015,

four issues related to bundling were selected for further

assessment with a view to finding solutions:

Already contracted unbundled capacity and offer

of bundled products only

CMP regulation and its consistent implementation

across IPs

Alignment of secondary marketing of bundled

products

Aligned procedures for the surrender of capacity

In April 2015, ENTSOG asked all interested stakeholders

including ACER, EC and NRAs to contribute. ENTSOG

requested feedback from stakeholders on its proposals

and particularly on the identified issues. In April 2015,

stakeholders were asked to provide feedback through a

consultation tool available on the ENTSOG website (public

consultation phase). They confirmed that the ENTSOG/

EFET work stream addresses the right issues, highlighting

that one of the four discussed issues is the top priority.

ENTSOG invited all interested stakeholders to two public

workshops to discuss the identified issues and potential

options. Two public workshops were held on 20 May 2015

and 30 June 2015 in Brussels. In addition, ENTSOG

organised three preparatory meetings (on 11 May, 3 June

and 25 June) with stakeholder experts in order to prepare

the content of both workshops and propose some solutions.

Through intensive dialogue with its stakeholders (public

consultation, preparatory meetings of stakeholder experts

and stakeholder workshops) on the outlined issues,

ENTSOG gained their support for potential options related to

the second stakeholder workshop held on 30 June. In July

2015, ENTSOG published a recommendation paper on how

the issues may be resolved.

Congestion Management Procedures

ENTSOG commenced monitoring the implementation of

CMP guidelines in December 2014 and published the

results in Annual Report 2014. To ensure timely publication

of results in this Annual Report, ENTSOG launched the

next monitoring process in Q4/2015. This monitoring is re-

quired by Article 8 (8) of Regulation (EC) No 715/2009.

Incremental Capacity work

The ENTSOG incremental proposal consists of two parts:

1) An amendment to CAMNC to establish the process of

offering and allocating incremental capacity

2) Incremental Chapter of TARNC dealing with the finan-

cial regulatory parameters and tariff-related issues of

incremental capacity.

Due to the high level of interrelations, the Incremental Pro-

posal and the TARNC are closely coordinated.

In 2015, the activities of INC AKG covered the ongoing

development of the CAM amendment and TARNC. This in-

cluded working closely with ACER and DG Energy.

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