III.3.40.

III.3.40.

Is the upstream transport capacity  for gas covered by the reporting obligation under Article 3(1)(b) of  Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1346/2014? 


Answer: Article 3 of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1346/2014 defines a list of contracts reportable to the Agency. As for the wholesale energy products in relation to the transportation of electricity or natural gas in the Union (Article 3(1)(b) of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1346/2014), the following contracts are reportable to the Agency:

(i) contracts relating to the transportation of electricity or natural gas in the Union between two or more locations or bidding zones concluded as a result of a primary explicit capacity allocation by or on behalf of the TSO, specifying physical or financial capacity rights or obligations;

(ii) contracts relating to the transportation of electricity or natural gas in the Union between two or more locations or bidding zones concluded between market participants on secondary markets, specifying physical or financial capacity rights or obligations, including resale and transfer of such contracts;

(iii) options, futures, swaps and any other derivatives of contracts relating to the transportation of electricity or natural gas in the Union.

The question whether upstream transport capacity contracts for gas are covered by the reporting obligation under Article 3(1)(b) of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1346/2014 refers to the capacity of gas upstream pipeline networks specified under Article 2(2) of Directive 2009/73 as ‘any pipeline or network of pipelines operated and/or constructed as part of an oil or gas production project, or used to convey natural gas from one or more such projects to a processing plant or terminal or final coastal landing terminal’.

It is the Agency’s current understating that the list of reportable contracts in relation to the transportation of gas as laid down in Article 3(1)(b) of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1346/2014 does not include gas transport capacity contracts related to upstream pipeline networks. This means that although such contracts are covered by the scope of Article 2(4) of REMIT, they are currently not reportable to the Agency according to Article 8(1) of REMIT in connection with Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1348/2014.

Updated: 
08/06/2016