One of the most important pieces of recent legislation on European gas and electricity markets is referred to as the Third Package. The Third Package of European energy reforms created a new legal framework to promote cross-border trade. Part of this, the Gas Regulation, sets out procedures for the establishment of a number of legally binding network codes. These network codes are designed to promote the creation of liquid markets, the efficient use of cross-border transmission capacity and the integration between Member States’ gas markets.
The Network Code on Capacity Allocation Mechanisms in Gas Transmission Systems (CAM) came into force on 3 November 2013 and applies from 1 November 2015. Any changes to ensure compliance of the Great Britain (GB) legal and regulatory framework with the provisions of the CAM network code must be made by 1 November 2015. We published an open letter on 31 October 2013 that described some of the issues around implementation that were specific to GB. In June 2014 we published our minded to position on the modifications that the Authority proposed to make to the Gas Transporter Licence that National Grid Gas (NGG) holds in respect of the NTS in order to facilitate the implementation of CAM.
We are now publishing a statutory consultation on changes to NGG's licence we consider are necessary to facilitate the implementation of certain aspects of CAM.
Our proposed changes are:
Following consultation and consideration of responses, we intend to publish our final decision in February 2015.