Monitoring Reports
Balancing Network Code
SECOND IMPLEMENTATION MONITORING 2016
The Balancing Network Code (Code) entered into force on 16 April 2014. It has been already applicable since
1 October 2015 but allows its application to be postponed until 1 October 2016 if allowed by the national regulatory
authority (‘NRA’) following the TSO’s justified request. For those countries which applied for a transitory period, the
deadline for full implementation of the Code was 1 October 2016.
1) And additional 5 years for the case of the interim measure of a balancing platform, pursuant to Article 47(3) of the NC.
2) Including some exceptions for three countries (LU, DK and FR).
Interim measures can be implemented for up to five years
1)
from the entry into force of the Code (i. e. until 16 April
2019). Such interim measures would be applied consistent
with the options laid down in Chapter
X
of the Code as well
as general principles of the Code, while all the other provi-
sions in the BAL NC shall be implemented by 1 October
2015.
Both ACER and ENTSOG are required to publish monitoring
reports. In its monitoring report, ENTSOG has continued
monitoring the implementation of the Code by 1 October
2016, following Article 8(8) of Regulation (EC) No 715/2009.
It takes the obligatory (annual) reviews, the implementation
deadline by 1 October 2016 for countries applying transito-
ry period option as well as the changes due to the on-going
implementation of the BAL NC provisions into account.
In general, a shift can be observed from the planning to the
implementation phase particularly for countries applying in-
terim measures and transitory period option. But changes
have also been observed in the balancing regimes for coun-
tries that implemented the Code in 2015. TSOs were also ob-
served to have improved in fulfilling transparency obligations
towards network users for better balancing of portfolios.
The on-going implementation regarding the provision of in-
formation on forecasts, updates and allocations can be no-
ticed as several updates or new implementation have been
reported by different countries by 1 October 2016. For ex-
ample, some countries provide more frequent updates than
the minimum foreseen by BAL NC whereas some other
countries have still not designated an information model
and/or the forecasting party.
In all countries the described CBA process on information
provisions has not been fulfilled two years after the BAL NC
entering into force. In some countries, it is being pro-
gressed, in others, it is planned or postponed into the fu-
ture. The progress will be further monitored in the next
implementation monitoring report. Nevertheless the imple-
mentation or the improvement of information provisions was
reported in several countries.
Of ten countries (AT, BE/LU, DE, DK, FR, HU, NL, SI and
UK-GB) applying the deadline by 1 October 2015, nine of
them (AT, BE/LU, DE, DK, FR, NL, SI and UK-GB)
2)
stated
the implementation of BAL NC. One country (HU) reported
having most of the provisions in place by 1 October 2016.
Of eleven countries including Estonia (BG, DE, EL, IE, LT,
RO, SE, SK and UK-NI) that applied for interim measures
until April 2019, eight of them (DE, IE, LT, PL, RO, SE, SK
and UK-NI) reported having the interim measures in place.
Two respondents (EE* and EL) partially implemented the
planned interim measures by 1 October 2016 while one
country (BG) is planning to implement the interim measures
during 2017.
Three respondents (DE, IE, and UK-NI) stated that, except
interim measures, all other provisions in place while other
eight countries including Estonia (BG, EL, LT, PL, RO, SE
and SK) reported having partially implementing them by
1 October 2016.
Of five countries (CZ, ES, HR, IT and PT) which applied for
the transitory period option until 1 October 2016, Spain and
Italy have implemented the BAL NC while three countries
(CZ, HR and PT) still have to perform further implementa-
tion steps. For these five countries annual reviews will be
monitored with the next monitoring report.
Balancing implementation is an ongoing process – even
following implementation. Due to continuous changes in the
market environment, adjustments of the provisions such as
imbalance prices might be needed to better achieve the
goal of the Code.
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