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Usage of tolerances as interim measure (Art. 50 of BAL NC)

Details on the reason for using tolerances, toler- ance level and the expected timeline for the use of tolerances can be found in Annex VIII, table 8.4 .

The tolerances are meant to reduce network us- er’s financial exposure to the marginal sell or buy price in respect of a part of or the network user’s entire daily imbalance quantity for the gas day. As Map 14 below illustrates, six respondents (EL, IE, LT, PL (H-gas), RO and UK-NI) have stated the implementation of tolerances by 1 October 2016 while Bulgaria plans the imple- mentation during 2017.

a) Bulgaria plans the implementation by during 2017

No application of tolerances foreseen

Tolerances in place

Planned implementation a)

a) Bulgaria plans the implementation by during 2017.

Map 14:  Interim measure – Overview of current application of tolerances

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