ENTSOG Tariff NC - Implementation Document 2nd Edition

Entry into Force and Application Dates

ARTICLE 38 ENTRY INTO FORCE

Responsibility: no implications for TSO/NRA responsibility

Entry into force date Article 38 does not explicitly state the date for entry into force, but the date is 20 days after publication of the TAR NC in the Official Journal of the EU, which is 6 April 2017 calculated as form 17 March 2017. ‘Entry into force’ means that the TAR NC provi- sions have become legally binding. Application dates As compared to the ‘entry into force’ date, ‘application date’ is linked to the date for compliance with the TAR NC provisions. The TAR NC foresees three different ADs for its different Chapters (shown in Figure 45): \\ AD 1 – entry into force (6 April 2017) for the following Chapters: Chapter I ‘General provisions’, Chapter V ‘Pricing of bundled capacity and capacity at VIPs’, Chapter VII ‘Consultation requirements’, Chapter IX ‘Incremental capaci- ty’ and Chapter X ‘Final and transitional provisions’; \\ AD 2 – 1 October 2017 for the following Chapters: Chapter VI ‘Clearing and payable price’ and Chapter VIII ‘Publication requirements’; \\ AD 3 – 31 May 2019 for the following Chapters: Chapter II ‘Reference price methodologies’, Chapter III ‘Reserve prices’, Chapter IV ‘Reconciliation of revenue’. AD 1 coincides with the entry into force date. Article 38 sets AD 1 as a default AD, while AD 2 and 3 are viewed as exceptions.

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