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a) Slovakia operates its interim measure product on its balancing platform and has additional bal- ancing services in place. Germany and Poland have additional IM products under interim measures on a balancing platform in place. In UK-GB additional new Emergen- cy products listed in Merit order and were implemented by 1 Octo- ber 2016. b) Portugal introduced temporary only balancing services. Greece, Ire- land, Romania and Northern Ire- land reported that balancing ser- vices are operated under interim measures. Sweden stated that they are operating a “weekly prod- uct” under interim measures. c) Bulgaria plans to introduce bal- ancing services under interim measures during 2017.

STSP and Bal. Services by 1 October 2016 a)

Only STSP products by 1 October 2016 Planned Bal. Services by 1 October 2016 c)

Only Bal. Services by 1 October 2016 b)

a) Slovakia operates its interim measure product on its balancing platform and has additional balancing services in place. Germany and Poland have additional IM products under interim measures on a balancing platform in place. In UK-GB additional new Emergency products listed in Merit order and were implemented by 1 October 2016. b) Portugal introduced temporary only balancing services. Greece, Ireland, Romania and Northern Ireland reported that balancing services are operated under interim measures. Sweden stated that they are operating a “weekly product” under interim measures. c) Bulgaria plans to introduce balancing services under interim measures during 2017. Map 2:  STSP and balancing services in own balancing zone by 1 October 2016

that the TSO's short term gas needs could be satisfied at any time, balancing services have been implemented as a temporary solution to be terminated once Mibgas commences operation in Portugal. The balancing services are procured via a short term auction approved by the Portu- guese NRA. (More details with regards to bal- ancing services can be found in Annex II, table 2.1 ) Croatia which is currently using balancing ser- vices in accordance with art. 8.4 BAL NC, plans to introduce a balancing service via a public ten- der procedure by 1 April 2017. Within its regula- tory framework, Italy also foresees the possibility of introducing balancing services. Spain ulti- mately decided not to use balancing services, even though the regulatory framework provides this possibility. Balancing Services can only be used for balanc- ing purposes under certain circumstances. Of those 15 countries, six respondents including Estonia (CZ, EL, RO, SK and UK-NI) stated the absence of liquidity in STSP as the reason for

utilising balancing services while six ones (BG, HR, LT, PL, SI, and UK-NI) indicated that STSP was not providing the response required to keep the system within its operational limits. Three countries (DE, IE and PT) indicated other rea- sons. (Further details can be found in Annex II, table 2.2 ) An annual review of the usage of balancing services is obligatory according to the BAL NC. Ten of 15 countries (DE, EE*, HR, IE, LT, PL, RO, SK, SI, UK-NI) confirmed the obligatory annual review of the implemented balancing services. Other two countries (CZ and PT) have not yet passed the annual period. Greece stated that they are not yet necessary since no STSP are yet in place. Bulgaria indicated a review planned for Q3/2017. (Further details can be found in Annex II, table 2.2 )

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