ENTSOG Annual Report 2016

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 WG STRUCTURE

System Operations

Transparency WG

Technical Transparency Solutions KG

REMIT & UMM KG

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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