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TAR NC Implementation Document – Second Edition September 2017
Entry into Force and
Application Dates
ARTICLE 38 ENTRY INTO FORCE
Responsibility: no implications for TSO/NRA responsibility
Entry into force date
Article 38 does not explicitly state the date for entry into force, but the date is 20 days
after publication of the TAR NC in the Official Journal of the EU, which is 6 April 2017
calculated as form 17 March 2017. ‘Entry into force’ means that the TAR NC provi-
sions have become legally binding.
Application dates
As compared to the ‘entry into force’ date, ‘application date’ is linked to the date for
compliance with the TAR NC provisions.
The TAR NC foresees three different ADs for its different Chapters (shown in
Figure 45):
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AD 1 – entry into force (6 April 2017) for the following Chapters: Chapter I
‘General provisions’, Chapter V ‘Pricing of bundled capacity and capacity at
VIPs’, Chapter VII ‘Consultation requirements’, Chapter IX ‘Incremental capaci-
ty’ and Chapter X ‘Final and transitional provisions’;
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AD 2 – 1 October 2017 for the following Chapters: Chapter VI ‘Clearing and
payable price’ and Chapter VIII ‘Publication requirements’;
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AD 3 – 31 May 2019 for the following Chapters: Chapter II ‘Reference price
methodologies’, Chapter III ‘Reserve prices’, Chapter IV ‘Reconciliation of
revenue’.
AD 1 coincides with the entry into force date. Article 38 sets AD 1 as a default AD,
while AD 2 and 3 are viewed as exceptions.