ENTSOG Tariff NC - Implementation Document 2nd Edition

‘NEW’ TARIFFS

ARTICLE 27(5)

Responsibility: subject to national decision regarding the tariff period

31 May 2019 (‘AD 3’) is the date for applying Chapter II ‘Reference price methodologies’, Chapter III ‘Reserve prices’ and Chapter IV ‘Reconciliation of revenue’. The date falls within the gas year October 2018–September 2019, for which the binding reserve prices will be published in June 2018. The TAR NC stipulates that 31 May 2019 does not imply a change in the reserve prices. Article 27(5) clarifies that the tariffs applicable for the prevailing tariff period as of 31 May 2019 remain ‘until the end’ of the period. Table 13 provides an overview of the remaining time period for ‘old’ tariffs. Figure 32 shows with red crosses the tariff period from which ‘new’ tariffs apply, for four cases where the tariff period is equal to one year.  1)

BORDER DATE BETWEEN ‘OLD’ AND ‘NEW’ TARIFFS

Tariff period prevailing as of 31 May 2019

‘Old’ tariffs applicable until

‘New’ tariffs applicable as from

Sequence of change to ‘new’ tariffs

Concerned MS

3 rd to change

BG, CZ, DE, ES, FI, GR, HR, IT, LT, LU, NL, PL, SI, SK

1 January 2019 – 31 December 2019

31 December 2019 1 January 2020

4 th to change

1 April 2019 – 31 March 2020

31 March 2020

1 April 2020

FR

1 st to change

1 July 2018 – 30 June 2019

30 June 2019

1 July 2019

PT

2 nd to change

1 October 2018 – 30 September 2019

30 September 2019 1 October 2019

DK, GB, HU  1) , IE, NIR, RO, SE

5 th to change

1 January 2017 – 31 December 2020

31 December 2020 1 January 2021

AT

3 rd to change

1 January 2016 – 31 December 2019

31 December 2019 1 January 2020

BE

6 th to change

1 January 2017 – 31 December 2021

31 December 2021 1 January 2022

SK

Table 13: Border date between ‘old’ and ‘new’ tariffs

Although Table 13 shows that Portugal is the 1 st MS to switch from ‘old’ tariffs to the ‘new’ ones, this only applies to non-IPs. The tariffs at IPs applicable at 31 May 2019 will persist for an additional three months beyond the end of the prevailing tariff period on 30 June 2019, to 30 September 2019. ENTSOG has estimated that 17 months are needed for all the process to calculate the ‘new’ tariffs  2) . Therefore, in case the deadline of 1 July 2019 applies for a switch to the ‘new’ tariffs for all points, it would be necessary to start preparing the final consultation document already in December 2016 when the TAR NC was still under the scrutiny of the European Parliament and the Council. Hence, Figure 32 shows ‘new’ tariffs twice for the tariff period July–June: for non-IPs, the ‘new’ tariffs apply as of July 2019, while for IPs, the ‘new’ tariffs apply as of October 2019. Such an approach has implica- tions for separate reserve prices, reflected in Chapter III ‘Reserve prices’, and also has implications for the publication requirements reflected in Annex T.

 1) The current tariff period applicable in Hungary is January–December. It will be changed to October–September as from 2017.  2) See Section ‘Article 26(2), 26(3) and Article 27 – procedure for the periodic consultation’.

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