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NETWORK CODE INTEROPERABILITY & DATA EXCHANGE
Final Comitology
The Gas Committee approved the INT Network Code
(INT NC) at the second comitology meeting, held 3–4 No-
vember 2014. For several months, INT NC was subjected to
scrutiny and then published in the Official Journal of the
European Union on 30 April 2015. It subsequently came
into force on 20 May 2015. It shall apply from 1 May 2016
onwards without prejudice to Article 5 (see next section on
IA Template).
IA template
ENTSOG developed a draft interconnection agreement
template (as required by Article 5 of INT NC) that was
published in June 2015. It covers the default terms and
conditions set out in Articles 6 to 10 of the network code
which define key technical and operational areas of inter-
connection points.
In October, ACER provided its opinion welcoming the publi-
cation of the draft and made two recommendations. Firstly,
the Agency suggested presenting the default rules (i. e., the
minimum mandatory content of an agreement) separately
from the guidance on their application. This should bring
the template closer to the format of an agreement or an ad-
dition to one. Secondly, ACER recommended complement-
ing the separated guidance document on default rules with
samples from existing interconnection agreements.
In December 2015, ENTSOG published the final version
of the template addressing the document structure
recommendations from ACER and proposing to publish the
samples by 1 May 2016. This would allow the existing
agreements to be duly revised and ready for the applicabil-
ity of INT NC.
Long-Term Gas Quality Outlook
Article 18 of INT NC assigns ENTSOG the task of publishing
the long-term gas quality monitoring outlook for transmis-
sion systems. The forecast will identify the potential trends
of gas quality parameters and respective potential variabili-
ty within the next ten years and will be published along with
TYNDP 2017.
In the second half of 2015, System Operation and System
Development teams began an intense cooperation to fulfil
this new requirement by developing a robust methodology
that yields a meaningful outcome.
The first version of the Long-Term Gas Quality Outlook mod-
el gives a range of the gas quality forecasts per region, only
the Gross Calorific Value and Wobbe Index parameters are
taken into consideration.
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