Bulgartansgaz EAD is registered as Market Participant (MP) with ACER Code: A0001038B.BG, according to the requirements of Article 9.1 of Regulation (EU) № 1227/2011 and as Registered Reporting Mechanism (RRM) according to the requirements of the Agency for Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) for reporting of REMIT information.

Bulgartansgaz EAD registered as a RRM type “TSO” is entitled to report to ACER only data falling into the scope of the transmission system operatots’ obligation, in line with Article 3.1.(b)(i) and Article 9.2 of Regulation (ЕU) № 1348/2014. The company is not authorized to report on behalf of third parties, nor to report data different from what was specified during the RRM registration process and indicated on the ACER REMIT Portal in the "List of RRMs with data types".

 

MARKET PARTICIPANTS REGISTRATION, EICs AND REMIT

In line with the requirements of Article 9(4) of Regulation (EU) No 1227/2011, the market participants referred to in paragraph 1 of Article 9 of Regulation (EU) No 1227/2011 shall be registered with the national regulatory authority prior and present in the Central European Register of Market Participants (ACER CEREMP) to entering into a transaction which is required to be reported to the Agency in accordance with Article 8(1).

For more information on the requirements for registration as market participant and access to the portal for Market Participants registration used by the Bulgarian NRA, please visit the web-sites of ACER CEREMP and EWRC.

In line with the requirements of Article 10(2) of Regulation (EU) No 1348/2014 and ACER Decision 01-2012, the registration of the market participants in ACER CEREMP shall be supplemented by an EIC code and this code shall be used for REMIT reporting purposes.

The EIC of the market participant provided in ACER CEREMP must be used by the network user for its registration on the Regional Booking Platform (RBP) and Bulgartransgaz’s Commercial Dispatching Platform (CDP).

On 1 March 2021, ACER activated new validation rules on the reported gas and electricity transportation data.

The rules require and check whether the reported EIC type-X which is used to identify a market participant in the reported data for the capacity allocation transaction corresponds to the EIC provided by the market participant during its registration in accordance with article 9 paragraph 1 of Regulation (EU) No 1227/2011.

Upon the activation of the rules, all reported records containing EIC codes as identifiers of market participants that are not present in the ACER CEREMP will be rejected.

 

DOCUMENTS RELATED TO REMIT

REGULATION (EU) 2024/1106 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 11 April 2024 amending Regulations (EU) No 1227/2011 and (EU) 2019/942 as regards improving the Union’s protection against market manipulation on the wholesale energy market

REGULATION (EU) № 1227/2011 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 25 October 2011 on wholesale energy market integrity and transparency

COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) № 1348/2014 of 17 December 2014 on data reporting implementing Article 8(2) and Article 8(6) of Regulation (EU) № 1227/2011 on wholesale energy market integrity and transparency

COMMISSION DECISION (EU) 2020/2152 of 17 December 2020 on fees due to the European Union Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators for collecting, handling, processing and analysing of information reported under Regulation (EU) No 1227/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council

Other relevant information on the requirements and ACER guidance on REMIT implementation is available on ACER REMIT Portal and on ACER REMIT Knowledge Base