Role of balance responsible parties
Article 17
1. In real time, each balance responsible party shall strive to be balanced or help the power system to be balanced. The detailed requirements concerning this obligation shall be defined in the proposal for terms and conditions related to balancing set up pursuant to Article 18. 2. Each balance responsible party shall be financially responsible for the imbalances to be settled with the connecting TSO. 3. Prior to the intraday cross-zonal gate closure time, each balance responsible party may change the schedules required to calculate its position pursuant to Article 54. TSOs applying a central dispatching model may establish specific conditions and rules for changing the schedules of a balance responsible party in the terms and conditions related to balancing set up pursuant to Article 18. 4. After the intraday cross-zonal gate closure time, each balance responsible party may change the internal commercial schedules required to calculate its position pursuant to Article 54 in accordance with the rules set out in the terms and conditions related to balancing set up pursuant to Article 18.