ENTSOG Annual Report 2013

TRANSPARENCY STANDARDIZED SECTION ON TSOS’ WEBSITES

The main activities of TRA WG can be summarized as follows:

\\ Organization of workshops with ACER and European Commission for clarifying legislation and proposing implementation solutions for data provision

The Transparency Guidelines describe the basic responsibility of TSOs to publish information on their website in a ‘user-friend- ly manner’ and to make it available for market participants with no restrictions. In previous years, TSOs had received significant negative feedback particularly with respect to user-friendliness from stakeholders and ACER. After a brief implementation peri- od, TSOs worked hard to revamp their websites in a more user- friendly manner aimed at multinational users. As a solution, TRA WG developed a structure that partially standardizes how information is to be presented. This structure consists of three columns providing:

\\ Participation in public consultations and workshops organized by the European Commission and ACER

\\ Participation in REMIT IT expert group meetings

\\ Participation in ACER pilot project for data uploading to ACER database for REMIT purposes

\\ Refinements to text copy, definition of table structures for data provision and taxonomy for drafting implementing acts to be proposed to the European Commission and ACER

\\ Legal requirement of Regulation (EC) 715 / 2009 (EC) Annex 1

\\ Direct link to corresponding section of TSO individual website

\\ Development of Urgent Market Message structure and its implementation in Upgrade Transparency Platform

\\ Any further individual information on requirements (e.g., exemptions, definitions, interpretations specific to a country or TSO)

TRANSPARENCY WORKSHOP

This standardized section has been adopted by the majority of the TSOs and has been well received.

ENTSOG’s 7th Transparency Workshop was successfully organ- ized on 11 December 2013. Participants from all sectors of the gas industry had the chance learn and discuss:

REGULATION ON ENERGY MARKET INTEGRITY AND TRANSPARENCY

\\ Features and functionalities of upgraded Transparency Platform

The Regulation on Energy Market Integrity and Transparency (REMIT), which applies to all European players in the gas and electricity market and has significant consequences for European TSOs and ENTSOG, was on the agenda of each Transparency Group meeting. Regulation (EC) 1227 / 2011 was published on 25 October 2011 and was followed by additional ACER documents (Guidance 2 Update and Guidance 3). In 2013, the European Commission issued a draft of the Im­ plementing Acts that will establish rules to prohibit abusive practices on the wholesale energy market. This document will clarify which information market participants must report to ACER for market monitoring purposes.

\\ Plans for New Transparency Platform

\\ ACER’s views on implementation of transparency guidelines

\\ REMIT implementing acts and data to be reported by TSOs

\\ Framework guidelines on tariffs and new transparency requirements

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ENTSOG Annual Report 2013