E10-PC-58: Transparency requirements for natural gas

2010/09/10 - 2010/11/26

Background

Transparency is an essential pre-requirement for a functioning internal energy market and underpins the development of effective and efficient market functioning. The 3rd Package brought several new transparency requirements for natural gas. Furthermore, the Gas Comitology Committee agreed on a revision of Chapter 3 of Annex 1 of Regulation (EC) 715/2009 which is currently being commented by the European Parliament.


At the current stage legally binding transparency requirements are most detailed for transmission systems. Some basic transparency requirements for LNG and storage facilities are currently covered by the 3rd Package and in ERGEG Guidelines for Good Practice (GGP). Additionally the 3rd Package offers the possibility to develop comitology guidelines for storage and LNG transparency as well.


To evaluate the market need for further transparency requirements – exceeding the legally binding transparency requirements in Regulation (EC) 715/2009 and Directive 2009/73/EC – European Energy Regulators compiled a list of all existing transparency requirements and invites all interested parties to provide comments to the consultation paper - and in particular the questions.

Any comments should be received by 26 November 2010 and should be sent by email to gastransparency@ergeg.org


Following the public consultation period, ERGEG will publish all comments received from stakeholders. If a respondent would like ERGEG to treat their contribution with confidentiality then this must be explicitly mentioned in their submission.

 

Any questions on these documents should in the first instance be directed to:

 

Mrs. Fay Geitona

CEER Secretary General
Email: fay.geitona@ceer.eu
Tel. +32 2 788 73 30
Fax +32 2 788 73 50

Consultation Documents

E10-GWG-68-03
Transparency requirements for natural gas- public consultation document

C11-GWG-81-04
Transparency requirements for natural gas. Summary of responses document

Public Responses

E10-PC-58-01
BDEW

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BP

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Centrica

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ConocoPhillips

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E.ON

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EDF

E10-PC-58-07
EDF Energy

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EDF Trading

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Edison

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EFET

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EnBW

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ENI

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Eurelectric

E10-PC-58-14
Eurogas

E10-PC-58-15
Eurogas LNG

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EuroPEX

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ExxonMobil

E10-PC-58-18
GasNatural

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GasTerra

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GIE

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GLE

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IFIEC and CEFIC

E10-PC-58-23
National Grid

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O&G UK

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OGP

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POWEO

E10-PC-58-27
RWE

E10-PC-58-28
Shell

E10-PC-58-29
SSE

E10-PC-58-30
Statoil

E10-PC-58-31
Storengy

E10-PC-58-32
Vattenfall

E10-PC-58-33
BG