1. Electricity Regional Initiative Central South European Region Draft Report on Transparency for the CSE-Region Jan Müller Bundesnetzagentur ERI Central South Europe CSE Stakeholder Group Meeting, 21st April 2008

2. 2 ERI Central South Europe CSE Stakeholder Group Meeting, 21st April 2008 Introduction (1/2) Issue of transparency identified as very important for development of regional markets Regulators in all other REMs of central Europe published regional transparency reports Northern Europe: published in September 2007 Central Western Europe: published in December 2007 Central Eastern Europe: published in February 2008

3. 3 ERI Central South Europe CSE Stakeholder Group Meeting, 21st April 2008 Introduction (2/2) Regulators of Central South REM decided to move along this path Transparency report for the CSE REM drafted Goal: Harmonized implementation of Congestion Management Guidelines (CM-GL), cf. chapter 5 Enhancing comparability of market data of different countries/ regions

4. 4 ERI Central South Europe CSE Stakeholder Group Meeting, 21st April 2008 Framework for the report (1/2) Based on Congestion Management Guidelines ERGEG GGP-IMT Goal: Implementation of Congestion Management Guidelines (cf. chapter 5) Special national obligations of publication are not considered in this report

5. 5 ERI Central South Europe CSE Stakeholder Group Meeting, 21st April 2008 Framework for the report (2/2) Transparency Report is not a legal act by itself BUT: Demonstrates common interpretation of CSE NRAs concerning transparency rules of binding Congestion Management Guidelines (cf. chapter 5) Compliance with these guidelines will be monitored on basis of this common interpretation

6. 6 ERI Central South Europe CSE Stakeholder Group Meeting, 21st April 2008 List of definitions Five chapters on different topics Load Transmission and Interconnectors Generation Balancing Wholesale Market In most cases obligation of publication according to chapter 5 of the Congestion Management Guidelines Otherwise voluntary publication is proposed (e. g. data on wholesale market)

7. 7 ERI Central South Europe CSE Stakeholder Group Meeting, 21st April 2008 Location of publication General rule: publication on a common TSO website envisaged Obligation to publish is on TSOs ETSO Vista as option Information could be published at websites of PEX, but no voluntary publication scheme, i.e. information about all power plants > 100 MW is published links to websites of PEX on TSO website open to all market participants, not only participants of PEX

8. 8 ERI Central South Europe CSE Stakeholder Group Meeting, 21st April 2008 Data Provision TSO is responsible for publication Market participants obliged to provide TSOs with relevant data Provision of data of market participants not connected to TSOs grid Data available to DSOs Obligation of DSOs to provide TSOs with this data Enforceable by NRAs or other competent authority

9. 9 ERI Central South Europe CSE Stakeholder Group Meeting, 21st April 2008 Implementation schedule From 01.01.2009: Publication of generation data On national homepages of TSOs (or website of power exchanges) Publication of all other data (Load, transmission and interconnectors, balancing) On common European website (e.g. ETSOVista) If possible: Voluntary publication of aggregated information regarding wholesale markets

10. 10 ERI Central South Europe CSE Stakeholder Group Meeting, 21st April 2008 Public consultation Public consultation of CSE Transparency Report Shall start at the beginning of May Will last for four weeks Draft report will be available on the Regional Initiative web page of the CEER/ERGEG website Comments should be send via email Regulators welcome comments on all parts of the draft transparency report Additionally Regulators ask eight specific questions which are included in the consultation document

11. 11 ERI Central South Europe CSE Stakeholder Group Meeting, 21st April 2008 Further steps in the CSE - Region Public consultation Finalisation of the Report Publication of all comments received, unless explicitly stated that contribution is confidential Evaluation of comments received Publication of final transparency report for the CSE REM in Autumn 2008 Monitoring of implementation of transparency report

12. 12 ERI Central South Europe CSE Stakeholder Group Meeting, 21st April 2008 Thank you for your attention! Jan Müller Transmission Network Access and Cross-border Trade in Electricity Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railways Tulpenfeld 4, 53113 Bonn Tel: +49-228-14-5721 E-mail: Jan.Mueller @BNetzA.de