ENTSOG Annual Report 2016

TRANSPARENCY WG STRUCTURE

System Operations

Transparency WG

Technical Transparency

Solutions KG

REMIT & UMM KG

System Operations

The System Operations business area is mainly in charge of developing technical

network codes, evaluating all activities related to gas quality standardisation,

developing and maintaining existent Common Network Operation Tools (CNOT),

and the performance of ENTSOG’s Transparency Platform (TP).At present,

System Operations comprises two main working groups: Interoperability

(INT WG) and Transparency (TRA WG).

Transparency

The energy market liberalisation process, aimed at securing

a genuine, well-functioning, open and efficient internal mar-

ket in gas, has significantly changed the gas transmission

business and increased the need for transparency. In this

respect, specific obligations for gas TSOs have been intro-

duced through Regulation (EC) No 715/2009, which de-

fines the basic transparency rules, further specified in

Chapter 3 of Annex I (and its amendments).

The network codes have been developed to provide rules

and procedures to reach an appropriate level of harmonisa-

tion towards efficient gas trading and transport across gas

transmission systems in the EU, increasing data publication

requirements.

Regulation (EU) No 1227/2011 and its Commission Imple-

menting Regulation (EU) No 1348/2014 introduced addi-

tional publication and reporting obligations to the market

participants, aimed at supporting market monitoring, foster-

ing open and fair competition in wholesale energy markets

and the completion of a fully functioning, interconnected

and integrated internal energy market. The obligations are

also handled within the Transparency Area in ENTSOG.

GROUP STRUCTURE

The Transparency Working Group (TRA WG) is supported

by the Technical Transparency Solutions Kernel Group and

the REMIT & UMM Kernel Group.

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