Publication of information
Article 12
1. All entities referred to in Article 1( 2) shall provide TSOs with all the relevant information to fulfil their obligations laid down in paragraphs 3 to 5. 2. All entities referred to in Article 1( 2) shall ensure that information in paragraphs 3 to 5 is published at a time and in a format that does not create an actual or potential competitive advantage or disadvantage to any individual or companies. 3. Each TSO shall publish the following information as soon as it becomes available: (a) information on the current system balance of its scheduling area or scheduling areas, as soon as possible but no later than 30 minutes after real-time; (b) information on all balancing energy bids from its scheduling area or scheduling areas, anonymised where necessary, no later than 30 min after the end of the relevant market time unit. The information shall include: (i) type of product; (ii) validity period; (iii) offered volumes; (iv) offered prices; (v) information on whether the bid was declared as unavailable; (c) information on whether the balancing energy bid was converted from a specific product or from an integrated scheduling process no later than 30 min after the end of the relevant market time unit; (d) information regarding how balancing energy bids from specific products or from integrated scheduling process have been converted into balancing energy bids from standard products no later than 30 min after the end of the relevant market time unit; (e) aggregated information on balancing energy bids no later than 30 min after the end of the relevant market time unit, which shall include: (i) total volume of offered balancing energy bids; (ii) total volume of offered balancing energy bids separately per type of reserves; (iii) total volume of offered and activated balancing energy bids separately for standard and specific products; (iv) volume of unavailable bids separately per type of reserves; (f) information on offered volumes as well as offered prices of procured balancing capacity, anonymised where necessary, no later than one hour after the results of the procurement have been notified to the bidders; (g) the initial terms and conditions related to balancing referred to in Article 18 at least one month before the application and any amendments to the terms and conditions immediately following approval by the relevant regulatory authority in accordance with Article 37 of Directive 2009/72/EC; (h) information on the allocation of cross-zonal capacity for the exchange of balancing capacity or sharing of reserves pursuant to Article 38 at the latest 24 hours after the allocation and no later than 6 hours before the use of the allocated cross-zonal capacity: (i) date and time when the decision on allocation was made; (ii) period of the allocation; (iii) volumes allocated; (iv) market values used as a basis for the allocation process in accordance with Article 39; (i) information on the use of allocated cross-zonal capacity for the exchange of balancing capacity or sharing of reserves pursuant to Article 38 at the latest one week after the use of allocated cross-zonal capacity: (i) volume of allocated and used cross-zonal capacity per market time unit; (ii) volume of released cross-zonal capacity for subsequent timeframes per market time unit; (iii) estimated realised costs and benefits of the allocation process; (j) approved methodologies referred to in Articles 40, 41 and 42 at least one month before the application; (k) description of the requirements of any algorithm developed and amendments to it referred to in Article 58, at least one month before the application; (l) common annual report referred to in Article 59. 4. Subject to approval pursuant to Article 18, a TSO may withhold the publication of information on offered prices and volumes of balancing capacity or balancing energy bids if justified for reasons of market abuse concerns and if not detrimental to the effective functioning of the electricity markets. A TSO shall report such withholdings at least once a year to the relevant regulatory authority in accordance with Article 37 of Directive 2009/72/EC. 5. No later than two years after entry into force of this Regulation, each TSO shall publish the information pursuant to paragraph 3 in a commonly agreed harmonised format at least through the information transparency platform established pursuant to Article 3 of Regulation (EU) No 543/2013. No later than four months after the entry into force of this Regulation, ENTSO-E shall update the manual of procedures as referred to Article 5 of Regulation (EU) No 543/2013 and submit it to the Agency for its opinion, which the Agency shall provide within two months.