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Vehicles powered by natural gas
produce 20–30% fewer carbon
dioxide emissions than vehicles
powered by petrol.
TARIFF WORKING GROUP
After submitting the Draft Network Code on Harmonised
Transmission Tariff structures for Gas (TARNC) on 26 De-
cember 2014, TARWG continued to work on further devel-
oping TARNC to comply with proposals from ACER, EC and
stakeholders.
ACER provided their Reasoned Opinion on the draft of
TARNC on 26 March 2015. This outlined a number of rec-
ommendations to bring the submitted TARNC more in line
with the Framework Guidelines. TARWG considered these
recommendations and resubmitted TAR NC on 31 July
2015. At the Madrid Forum in October, ACER outlined its
rationale for being unable to provide a recommendation to
the EC on TAR NC. This resulted in the EC managing the
further development of TARNC. ENTSOG has continued to
work with EC on developing the detailed proposals with the
aim of delivering a TARNC for Comitology.
Tariff-related activities during 2016 will focus on the comi-
tology process and, towards the end of the year, look at
implementation considerations.
OTHER ACTIVITIES
The ENTSOG Market Team also contributed to industry
developments such as the Gas Target Model revision and
“The Bridge to 2025” paper conducted by ACER. The team
also participated in the EU-Russia dialogue and has been
cooperating with the Energy Community.
BALANCING WORKING GROUP
The Network Code on Gas Balancing in Transmission Net-
works (Commission Regulation (EU) No 312/2014) was
published in the Official Journal of the EU in March 2014
with a first implementation deadline of 1 October 2015.
During 2015, BAL WG focused on the implementation re-
quirements set out in BAL NC to prepare for the application
of the Network Code in the respective Member States. EN-
TSOG and ACER voluntarily continued to conduct a second
joint report to assess the implementation plans of the indi-
vidual TSOs and NRAs; the report identified the early imple-
mentation status of BAL NC in each Member State. It was
published at the beginning of November 2015, followed by
the related joint ACER and ENTSOG Workshop on Balanc-
ing on 17 November 2015.
In addition to this, BALWG amended the Business Require-
ments Specifications for the Nomination and Matching Pro-
cedures (NOM BRS) and conducted a public consultation
on this matter during March 2015. The amended NOM BRS
has been published as part of the Nomination and Match-
ing Common Network Operation Tools (known as CNOTs)
on the ENTSOG website. NOM BRS defines the data ex-
change processes between TSOs and network users in the
nomination and matching process and provides a frame-
work for the introduction of a single nomination procedure.
Thereby, ENTSOG has provided the tools to fulfil the re-
quirement for a single nomination procedure set out in
CAMNC.
ENTSOG launched a process of implementation monitoring
for BAL NC in mid-December 2015 due to ENTSOG’s mon-
itoring obligation as set out in Article 8 (8) of Regulation
(EC) No 715/2009. This related process was launched
to ensure the timely publication of results in this Annual
Report.
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