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TAR NC Implementation Document – Second Edition September 2017
Comparison
ARTICLE 27(5) REPETITIVE CONSULTATION PROCESSES
AND 28(2) AND COMPARISON
Responsibility: consultation per Article 26(1) is by TSO/NRA, as NRA decides,
and decision is by NRA; consultation per Article 28(1) is by NRA, and decision
is by NRA
Table 15 compares procedural aspects of the consultations under Article 26(1) and
Article 28(1).
1)
COMPARISON OF CONSULTATIONS UNDER ARTICLES 26(1) AND 28(1)
Aspect
Consultation per Article 26(1)
Consultation per Article 28(1)
Content of the
consultation
See Table 10
Overlap for discounts (LNG,
‘isolation’)
See Table 11
Overlap for discounts (LNG,
‘isolation’)
Who is consulting
TSO or NRA, as decided by NRA NRA
Who is consulted
Stakeholders
‘NRAs from all directly connected
MSs and relevant stakeholders’
Start of the first
procedure
May be initiated as from the TAR NC entry into force
End of the first proce-
dure
As from 31 May 2019
1)
Start of the subsequent
procedures
At least every five years as from
the NRA decision per first
procedure
Every tariff period as from the
NRA decision per first procedure
End of the subsequent
procedures
By 31 May 2024 and every five
years thereafter
Minimum 30 days before
publishing information for the
annual yearly capacity auctions
Table 15:
Comparison of consultations under Articles 26(1) and 28(1)
As Table 15 shows, the procedure per Article 26(1) must repeat at least every five
years as from 31 May 2019, while the Article 28(1) procedure must recur every tariff
period, and 30 days before the annual yearly capacity auctions. ‘Subsequent
consultations’ must occur even if no changes are foreseen from previous NRA
decisions. The two consultation processes therefore coincide at least every five
years. Figure 33 shows the example of a one-year January – December tariff period
where the Article 26(1) consultation repeats exactly every five years. The example
does not reflect the idea of ‘merging’ the consultations as described above.
1) See Section ‘Article 27(5) – ‘new tariffs’ for implications for the prevailing tariffs at the date of 31 May 2019.