In compliance with the requirements of Art. 81, k), para 1 of the Energy Act Bulgartransgaz EAD has developed a Compliance Programme ensuring that discriminatory behaviour by the independent transmission system operator is excluded and setting out the specific obligations of employees to meet this objective (the Programme).

The purpose of the Compliance Programme is to ensure the independence of the gas transmission operator as part of a vertically integrated enterprise, ensure that discriminatory behaviour by the independent transmission system operator is excluded in order to ensure equal treatment of all parties involved in the natural gas market who are using or could make use of the services offered by the transmission system operator and/or the natural gas storage facilities, as well as the Company employees' specific obligations to meet this objective.

The Programme introduces specific obligations aimed at excluding discriminatory behaviour towards natural gas market participants and regulates the access to and the way of using the various types of information that has become known to the Company's employees in the course of performance of their obligations.

The Compliance Programme is Approved by the State Energy and Water Regulatory Commission by Decision № S - 4 from 22.06.2015 г.