Trade notifications and allocations
Article 5
1. Gas transfer between two balancing portfolios within one balancing zone shall be made through disposing and acquiring trade notifications submitted to the transmission system operator in respect of the gas day. 2. The timing for submitting, withdrawing and amending trade notifications shall be defined by the transmission system operator in the transport contract or other legally binding agreement with network users taking into account the time, if any, for processing the trade notifications. The transmission system operator shall enable the network users to submit trade notifications close to the time when the trade notification becomes effective. 3. The transmission system operator shall minimise the time for processing trade notifications. The time for processing shall not take more than thirty minutes except where the time when the trade notification becomes effective permits to extend the time for processing up to two hours. 4. A trade notification shall provide at least the following information: (a) the gas day for which gas is transferred; (b) the identification of the balancing portfolios concerned; (c) whether it is a disposing or an acquiring trade notification; (d) the notification quantity expressed in kWh/d for daily notification quantity or in kWh/h for hourly notification quantity, as required by the transmission system operator. 5. If the transmission system operator receives a corresponding set of a disposing and an acquiring trade notifications and the notification quantities are equal then the transmission system operator shall allocate the notification quantity to the balancing portfolios concerned: (a) as an off-take to the balancing portfolio of the network user making the disposing trade notification; and (b) as an input to the balancing portfolio of the network user making the acquiring trade notification. 6. Where the notification quantities referred to in paragraph 5 are not equal, the transmission system operator shall either allocate the lower notification quantity specified in the relevant trade notification or shall reject both trade notifications. The applicable rule shall be defined by the transmission system operator in the applicable transport contract or other legally binding agreement. 7. A service provider shall not be prevented to act on behalf of a network user for the purpose of paragraph 5, subject to the prior approval of the transmission system operator. 8. A network user may make a trade notification on a gas day irrespective of whether any nomination was made by this network user for that gas day. 9. Paragraphs 1 to 8 shall apply, mutatis mutandis , to the transmission system operators trading in accordance with Article 6(3)(a).