ENTSOG BAL NC Monitoring Report 2016

2 Information Sources and Data Collection ENTSOG sent a questionnaire on implementation monitoring of NC BAL on 2 December 2016 to TSOs of the 22 EU countries (AT, BE, BG, CZ, DE, DK, EL, ES, FR, HU, HR, IE, IT, LT, NL, PL, PT, SE, SI, SK, RO, UK) 3) where the NC BAL applies and to those countries holding derogation on the basis of Article 49 of Directive 2009/73/EC (Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Luxembourg and Malta).

Voluntary responses were received from Luxem- bourg and a voluntary partial response from Estonia. Thus data has been gathered from a to- tal of 25 countries including Estonia (AT, BE/LU, BG, CZ, DE, DK, EL, ES, FR, HU, HR, IE, IT, LT, NL, PL, PT, SE, SI, SK, RO, UK-GB and UK-NI). (Further details are provided in Annex I, Table 1.1 )

TSOs indicated that their responses to the ques- tionnaire were provided in cooperation with their respective NRA. The following section presents the implementa- tion status of NC BAL by 1 October 2016 and a summary of the main results. Specific comments and explanations are shown where relevant. Some more detailed information provided by the TSOs for each country is shown in the annexes to the report.

This report uses the information provided by TSOs in each EU country as a data basis. Some

3) UK is mentioned as UK-GB and UK-NI due to two different balancing regimes.

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