ENTSOG First Report on Implementation Monitoring and Baseline for Effect Monitoring of the Tariff Network Code

3.2.2 CONSULTATION ACTIVITY IN 2017

ARTICLE 26

‘PERIODIC CONSULTATION’

Overview of the Rule

Article 26 ‘Periodic consultation’ sets out that ‘one or more’ intermediate consultations may be carried out, and a ‘final’ consultation must be carried out, either by the NRA or the TSO, as decided by the NRA. The ‘final’ consultation will include all aspects of Article 26 ‘Periodic consultation’, including any aspect already covered in an ‘intermediate’ consultation, if an ‘intermediate’ consultation was carried out. The final consultation covers the following provisions: proposed reference price methodology, revenue information, commodity-based and non-transmission tariffs, tariff changes and trends for standard capacity products, fixed payable price approach. As for the deadline, the TAR NC state that ‘ the procedure consisting of the final consultation on the reference price methodology […], the decision by the national regulatory authority […], the calculation of tariffs on the basis of this decision, and the publication of the tariffs […] may be initiated as from the entry into force of this Regulation and shall be concluded no later than 31 May 2019 .

Responses

Who is responsible for the periodic consultation, TSO or NRA?

4

8

NRA,33 (from 14 MSs) TSO, 8 (from 7 MSs) To be decided, 4 (from 3 MSs)

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Figure 19: Responsibility for the periodic consultation

Æ For 33 TSOs it is the NRA who has responsibility for consultation. Æ For eight TSOs it is the TSO who has responsibility for consultation. Æ For four TSOs it is still to be decided by the NRA who will be responsible for consultation.

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