Five years of ENTSOG

ENTSOG has been created under the Third Energy Package; in particular “Regulation (EC) No 715/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 on conditions for access to the natural gas transmission networks and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1775/2005” (the “Regulation”) sets the rules and tasks for ENTSOG. Foundation

According to article 8 (3) of the Regulation ENTSOG has to adopt:

ENTSOG was founded on December 1 st 2009, well in advance of the March 3 rd 2011 date that was explicitly requested by Regulation. This was possible due to the fact that TSOs understood the importance of the tasks assigned to ENTSOG and therefore wanted to be ready for the official inception of the association. It is mentioned in the Regulation that “The tasks of the ENTSO for Gas should be well-defined and its working method should ensure efficiency, transparency and the representative nature of the ENTSO for Gas” . This is the reason why ENTSOG set up a process for the involvement of the stakeholders for the preparation of all the relevant documents.

(a) common network operation tools to ensure coordina- tion of network operation in normal and emergency conditions, including a common incidents classifica- tion scale, and research plans; (b) a non-binding Community-wide ten-year network development plan (Community-wide network devel- opment plan),including a European supply adequacy outlook, every two years; (c) recommendations relating to the coordination of tech- nical cooperation between Community and third- country transmission system operators; (d) an annual work programme; (e) an annual report; (f) annual summer and winter supply outlooks.

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