EU Network Codes

To comply with the European Network Codes, Elia is required to publish the (non-confidential) terms and conditions or methodologies that have been established as part of the EU network Codes and approved by the competent regulatory authorities (or if no such approval is required, to publish them after their establishment). These terms and/or conditions or methodologies are listed hereunder, structured per Network Code. More information on the implementation of the EU Network Codes can be found here.

Connection Codes:

Requirements for Generators (RfG)
Demand Connection Code (DCC)
High Voltage Direct Current Connections (HVDC)

Market Codes:

Capacity Allocation & Congestion Management (CACM)

Topic	Decision date	Documents
CCR Amendment	01 April 2019	ACER Decision 04/2019 on TSOs' proposal for amendment of CCRs Annex 1 to ACER Decision
Scheduled Exchanges - Intra-day	21 February 2019	All TSOs' proposal for calculating Scheduled Exchanges resulting from single intra-day coupling
Scheduled Exchanges - Day-ahead	14 February 2019	All TSOs' proposal for calculating Scheduled Exchanges resulting from single day-ahead coupling
Channel - Coordinated Redispatching and Countertrading Methodology (art 35 CACM) and Cost sharing Methodology (art 74 CACM)	24 January 2019	Channel TSOs' proposal for RD and CT Methodology Channel TSOs' proposal for RD and CT Cost Sharing Methodology Explanatory Note for Channel RD and CT Methodology and Cost sharing methodology All Channel NRAs' decision CREG Decision (B) 1894
Channel – Day-Ahead & Intraday Capacity Calculation	06 December 2018	Channel TSOs' proposal of common capacity calculation methodology for the day-ahead and intraday market timeframe
Channel CNTC approach Capacity Calculations	29 November 2018	Channel Capacity Calculation Region TSOs’ proposal for the application of the net transfer capacity (CNTC) approach to our Capacity Calculations
Channel Fallback	29 November 2018	Channel TSOs' proposal for fallback procedures
Intraday Cross-Zonal Gate Opening and Gate Closure Times	24 April 2018	ACER Decision Annex 1
Congestion Income Distribution Methodology	14 December 2017	ACER decision: DECISION OF THE AGENCY FOR THE COOPERATION OF ENERGY REGULATORS No 07/2017 Annex 1: Congestion income distribution methodology Annex 2: Evaluation of responses to the consultation on the Congestion income distribution methodology with all regulatory authorities and TSOs
Maximum & Minimum prices – Day-ahead	14 November 2017	ACER decision: DECISION OF THE AGENCY FOR THE COOPERATION OF ENERGY REGULATORS No 04/2017 Annex 1: Harmonised maximum and minimum clearing prices for single day-ahead coupling Annex 2: Evaluation on the proposal on harmonised maximum and minimum clearing prices
Maximum & Minimum prices – Intraday	14 November 2017	ACER decision: DECISION OF THE AGENCY FOR THE COOPERATION OF ENERGY REGULATORS No 05/2017 Annex 1: Harmonised maximum and minimum clearing prices for single intraday coupling Annex 2: Evaluation on the proposal on harmonised maximum and minimum clearing prices
Day Ahead Firmness Deadline	15 June 2017	All TSOs’ proposal for the day-ahead firmness deadline (DAFD)
Common Grid Model	18 May 2017	All TSOs’ proposal for a common grid model methodology
Generation and Load Data Provision Methodology	12 January 2017	All TSOs’ proposal for a generation and load data provision methodology
MNA Proposal	22 December 2016	Proposal for Multiple NEMO Arrangements (MNA) for the Belgian bidding zone
Determination of capacity calculation regions	17 November 2016	Decision of the ACER on the electricity Transmission System Operators' proposal for the determination of Capacity Calculation Regions (CCRs) Annex 1: Definition of the Capacity Calculation Regions (CCRs) Annex 2: Evaluation of responses to the public consultation on the CCRs Proposal Annex 3: Evaluation of responses to the NRA and TSO consultation on the preliminary draft Agency Decision on the CCRs Proposal Annex 4: Technical justification document for the inclusion of the border between DE/LU/AT in the determination of CCRs Annex 5: Opinion of the ACER on the compliance of national regulatory authorities decisions on allocation of cross-border transmission capacity in CE Europe and management of available transfer capacity of interconnections Annex 6: Amendment of the proposal in order to include the BE-GB border

Forward Capacity Allocation (FCA)

Topic	Decision date	Documents
Methodology for sharing costs incurred to ensure firmness and remuneration of long-term transmission rights (FRC)	22 March 2023	ACER Decision 25-2020 on sharing costs incurred to ensure firmness and remuneration of long-term transmission rights ACER Decision 25-2020 - Annex I: Methodology for sharing costs incurred to ensure firmness and remuneration of long-term transmission rights ACER Decision 12-2021 on sharing costs incurred to ensure firmness and remuneration of long-term transmission rights ACER Decision 12-2021 - Annex I: Methodology for sharing costs incurred to ensure firmness and remuneration of long-term transmission rights (FCA-FRC Methodology) ACER Decision 07-2023 on sharing costs incurred to ensure firmness and remuneration of long-term transmission rights LAST VERSION: ACER Decision 07-2³³023 - Annex I: Methodology for sharing costs incurred to ensure firmness and remuneration of long-term transmission rights (FCA-FRC Methodology)
Harmonised Allocation Rules - amendment	29 October 2019	ACER Decision 14/2019 on TSOs' proposal for amendment of the harmonised allocation rules for long-term transmission rights Annex 1 to ACER Decision
Congestion Income Distribution (CID)	22 May 2019	All TSOs' proposal for a congestion income distribution (CID) methodology Annex 1 - sharing keys Explanatory note
Common Grid Model Methodology	4 July 2018	All TSOs’ proposal for a common grid model methodology
Regional design of long-term transmission rights for Core region	21 June 2018	Core CCR TSOs’ proposal for the regional design of long-term transmission rights Explanatory Note
Definition of long-term nomination rules for Channel region	19 April 2018	Proposal for nomination rules for Physical Transmission Rights for the bidding zone borders of the Channel region
Generation and Load Data Provision Methodology	8 March 2018	All TSOs’ proposal for a generation and load data provision methodology
Regional design of long-term transmission rights for Channel region	22 February 2018	Channel TSOs proposal for the regional design of long-term transmission rights
Single Allocation Platform Proposal	16 November 2017	All TSOs’ proposal for the establishment of a Single Allocation Platform (SAP) and for the cost sharing methodology Explanatory Note
Regional Specific Annex for Core to the Harmonised Allocation Rules	16 October 2017	Regional Specific Annex for CCR Core to the Harmonised Allocation Rules for long-term transmission rights
Harmonised Allocation Rules for long-term transmission right	2 October 2017	ACER decision: DECISION OF THE AGENCY FOR THE COOPERATION OF ENERGY REGULATORS No 03/2017 Annex 1: Harmonised Allocation Rules for long-term transmission rights Annex 2: Evaluation of responses to the NRAs and TSOs consultation on the HAR Proposal

Electricity Balancing (EB)

Topic	Decision date	Documents
Methodology for a list of standard products for balancing capacity	17 June 2020	ACER Decision: 11-2020 on the Methodology for a list of standard products for balancing capacity Annex I: Methodology for a list of standard products for balancing capacity for frequency restoration reserves and replacement reserves Annex II: Evaluation of responses to the public consultation on the methodology for a list of standard products for balancing capacity for frequency restoration reserves and replacement reserves
Methodology for a co-optimised allocation process of cross-zonal capacity	17 June 2020	ACER Decision: 12-2020 on the Methodology for a co-optimised allocation process of cross-zonal capacity Annex I: Methodology for co-optimised allocation process of cross-zonal capacity Annex II: Evaluation of responses to the public consultation on the methodology for a co-optimised allocation process of cross-zonal capacity
Methodology for classifying the activation purposes of balancing energy bids	15 July 2020	ACER Decision: 16-2020 on the Methodology for classifying the activation purposes of balancing energy bids Annex I: Methodology for classifying the activation purposes of balancing energy bids Annex II: Evaluation of responses to the public consultation on the Methodology for classifying the activation purposes of balancing energy bids
Common settlement rules applicable to all intended exchanges of energy as a result of the reserve replacement process, the frequency restoration process with manual and automatic activation and the imbalance netting process	15 July 2020	ACER Decision: 17-2020 on Common settlement rules applicable to all intended exchanges of energy as a result of the reserve replacement process, the frequency restoration process with manual and automatic activation and the imbalance netting process Annex I: Common settlement rules applicable to all intended exchanges of energy as a result of the reserve replacement process, the frequency restoration process with manual and automatic activation and the imbalance netting process Annex II: Evaluation of responses to the public consultation on the Common settlement rules applicable to all intended exchanges of energy as a result of the reserve replacement process, the frequency restoration process with manual and automatic activation and the imbalance netting process
Harmonisation of the main features of imbalance settlement	15 July 2020	ACER Decision: 17-2020 on the Harmonisation of the main features of imbalance settlement Annex I: Harmonisation of the main features of imbalance settlement Annex II: Evaluation of responses to the public consultation on the Harmonisation of the main features of imbalance settlement
All asynchronously connected TSOs’ proposal for Common settlement rules for all intended exchanges of energy between synchronous areas as a result of the frequency containment process and of ramping restrictions	27 May 2020	All asynchronously connected TSOs’ proposal for Common settlement rules for all intended exchanges of energy between synchronous areas as a result of the frequency containment process and of ramping restrictions
All continental European TSOs’ proposal for Common settlement rules for intended exchanges of energy as a result of the frequency containment process and ramping period	11 June 2020	All continental European TSOs’ proposal for Common settlement rules for intended exchanges of energy as a result of the frequency containment process and ramping period
All continental European TSOs’ proposal for Common settlement rules for all unintended exchanges of energy	11 June 2020	All continental European TSOs’ proposal for Common settlement rules for all unintended exchanges of energy
Implementation Framework for a European platform for the imbalance netting process	24 June 2020	ACER Decision: 13-2020 on the Implementation framework for the European platform for the imbalance netting process Annex I: Implementation Framework for IN Platform Corrigendum to ACER Decision 13-2020
Implementation framework for a European platform for the exchange of balancing energy from frequency restoration reserves with manual activation	24 January 2020	Acer Decision: 03-2020 on the Implementation framework for mFRR Platform Annex I: Implementation framework for mFRR Platform Annex II: Evaluation of responses to the NRAs and consultation with TSOs on the mFRR
Implementation framework for a European platform for the exchange of balancing energy from frequency restoration reserves with automatic activation	24 January 2020	ACER Decision: 02-2020 on the Implementation framework for aFRR Platform Annex I: Implementation framework for aFRR Platform Annex II: Evaluation of responses to the NRAs and consultation with TSOs on the aFRR
Methodology to determine prices for the balancing energy that results from the activation of balancing energy bids for the frequency restoration process	25 February 2022	ACER Decision: 03-2022 on Amendment on the Methodology for pricing balancing energy ACER Decision: 01-2020 on the Methodology for pricing balancing energy Annex I: Methodology for pricing balancing energy Annex II: Evaluation of responses to the NRAs and consultation with TSOs on the Pricing Proposal
All asynchronously connected TSOs’ proposal for Common settlement rules for all unintended exchanges of energy between synchronous areas	9 January 2020	All asynchronously connected TSOs’ proposal for Common settlement rules for all unintended exchanges of energy between synchronous areas
Common and harmonised rules and processes for the exchange and procurement of FCR	18 December 2018	All TSOs' proposal for article 33(1) of EBGL
Exemption from the obligation to allow balancing service providers to transfer their obligations to provide FCR	18 December 2018	All TSOs proposal for article 34(1) of EBGL
Exemption from the requirement to carry out the procurement of upward and downward balancing capacity of aFRR separately	18 December 2018	Proposal for exemption according to article 32(3) of EBGL

Operational codes:

System Operation Guideline (SO GL)

Topic	Decision date	Documents
FCR additional properties	21 January 2021	The Additional Properties of FCR in accordance with article 154(2) of SOGL
Key Organisational Requirements, Roles and Responsibilities (KORRR) relating to Data Exchange	19 December 2018	ACER Decision All TSOs’ proposal for the KORRR relating to Data Exchange Supporting document
Common Grid Model Methodology	17 September 2018	All TSOs’ proposal for a common grid model methodology

Emergency & Restoration (E&R)

Topic	Decision date	Documents
Elia Market Suspension Rules, Market Restoration Rules and Rules for Imbalance settlement in case of suspension of market activities	9 November 2023	Rules for suspension and restoration of market activities, in accordance with Article 36(1) and Rules for imbalance settlement and settlement of balancing energy in case of suspension of market activities, in accordance with Article 39(1) of Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/2196 of 24 November 2017 establishing a network code on electricity emergency and restoration

EU Network Codes

Connection Codes:

Requirements for Generators (RfG)

Demand Connection Code (DCC)

High Voltage Direct Current Connections (HVDC)

Market Codes:

Capacity Allocation & Congestion Management (CACM)

Forward Capacity Allocation (FCA)

Electricity Balancing (EB)

Operational codes:

System Operation Guideline (SO GL)

Emergency & Restoration (E&R)

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