ENTSOG Implementation and Monitoring Report 2017 - Balancing Network Code

2 Evaluation of Responses to Questionnaire The BAL NC has been applicable since 1 October 2015 but con- tains a provision allowing its application by 1 October 2016 if al- lowed by the national regulatory authority (‘NRA’) following the TSO’s justified request and in case that no interim measures are applied. For those countries the deadline for full implementation of the code has also passed by 1 October 2016.

Instead of full implementation, interim measures can be implemented for up to five years  1) from the entry into force of the Code (i. e. until 16 April 2019). Such interim measures must be applied consistently with the options laid down in articles 45–53 of the BAL NC as well as the general principles of the Code, while all other provisions in the Code are to have been imple- mented by 1 October 2015.

Since the various gas networks and markets differ from each other in their characteristics, the adopted Code grants NRAs and TSOs with a high degree of flexibility in their national imple- mentation. For ten countries (AT, BE/LU, DE, DK, FR, HU, NL, SI, UK-GB) BAL NC was appli- cable by 1 October 2015 and for five countries (CZ, ES, IT, HR, PT) BAL NC by 1 October 2016 as allowed by the national regulatory authority. Nine other countries in addition to Germany and UK (BG, DE  2) , EL, IE, LT, LV, PL, RO, SE, SK, and UK-NI) applied for interim measures until April 2019. Estonia is holding a derogation until 2020.

1) And additional 5 years for the case of the interim measure of a balancing platform, pursuant to Article 47(3) of the NC. 2) Germany is doubled categorised as it applied in addition to its implemented trading platform an additional balancing platform under interim measures.

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