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Requirements of REMIT

Ensuring natural gas wholesale market integrity and the trust of the market participants and consumers depends to a big extent on the increased transparency of the key demand and supply elements.  The EU Regulation on Energy Wholesale Markets Integrity and Transparency (REMIT) aims at setting up a legal framework to achieve this goal. DEPA SA supports the effort to ensure natural gas wholesale market integrity and transparency by posting on the website useful information.  

1.   What is REMIT?
    • It sets out what behaviour of the participants in said markets are abusive, i.e. market manipulation or any attempt to manipulation, exploitation of inside information etc.
    • It explicitly forbids the above abusive behavours and foresees the enactment of rules for penalties if the provisions of the Regulation are violated.
    • It imposes the obligation on market participants to publicly disclose in an effective and timely manner inside information that can significantly affect the prices of related energy products and  
  • It imposes the obligation on any person professionally arranging transactions in wholesale energy products to report any suspicious transaction.    

2.   What is the aim of REMIT?

  • Ensuring the integrity and transparency in energy markets via providing ACER and RAE (and/or other regulatory authorities, i.e. Securities and Exchange Commission, Competition Commission etc) with detailed data related to said wholesale market transactions.
  • Strengthening the trust of market participants.

Establishing an environment of objective and competitive prices of the relevant products to the benefit of the consumers.

3. Who is governed by REMIT reporting obligations?

Anyone arranging transactions in one or more wholesale markets within the EU, including participants with registered offices within EU and participants with registered offices in non-EU states or non-EEA states and are active in an EU member state making deliveries in the EU.
Indicatively, the following can be considered participants: 
  • electricity and natural gas suppliers & traders
  • electricity and natural gas producers
  • natural gas shippers
  • companies proving system balancing services
  • wholesale customers
  • end consumers who, as single economic entity, have total annual consumption more than 600GWh
  • system operators
  • operators of storage facilities
  • operators of LNG facilities
  • investment companies in the meaning of article 4(1), Νο. 1 of Directive 2004/39.

The above participants should be registered as “market participants” in the Centralised European Registry for Energy Market Participants (CEREMP). More information about the registration procedure can be found at: https://www.acer-remit.eu/ceremp/home?nraShortName=11&lang=el_GR.

4.   Which wholesale energy products are governed by the obligation of transaction reporting in the REMIT framework?
The REMIT framework covers the wholesale energy products in trading and derivative markets, regulated markets, standard contracts (electricity and natural gas contracts traded in an organized market) and non-standard contracts (all other electricity and natural gas contracts between two parties [i.e. bilateral contracts] not traded in an organized market), i.e. the following:
 
 
  • Contracts for the supply of electricity and natural gas where delivery (of any given duration) is in the EU
  • Options, future contracts, exchange contracts and all derivatives related to electricity and natural gas produced, traded or delivered in the EU
  • Contracts relating to the transmission (of any given duration) of electricity or natural gas in the EU between participants in secondary markets (including reselling or transfer of said contracts)
  • Options, future contracts, exchange contracts and all derivatives related to the transmission of electricity and natural gas in the EU and  
  • contracts for the supply and distribution of electricity and natural gas for end users with annual consumption capacity more than 600 GWh. According to Article 3.2 of the Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1348/2014, in order to facilitate reporting, all end customers with a technical capacity more than the above threshold should notify the competent counterparty (their supplier(s)) about the technical consumption capacity from the specific consumption unit.

Note:

  • Intergroup contracts, contracts for electricity and natural gas balancing services, contracts for delivery of electricity produced by a plant with capacity <= 10MW and contracts for delivery of natural gas produced by a plant with capacity <= 20MW are reported only following a request of ACER in special cases.
  • REMIT does not cover wholesale energy products that are broker products covered by Directive 2014/57/EU relating to penalties in case of market abuse.

5.   What are the reporting times for the transactions based on REMIT?

The deadline for the reporting of said transactions differs depending on the category of energy products:

  • standard contracts must be reported the latest up to the next working day from the conclusion of the relevant contract (or its amendment, termination, annulment)
  • non-standard contracts must be reported the latest within one month from the conclusion (or the amendment, termination) of the contract.

6.   When does the reporting obligation under REMIT start?

  • REMIT entered into force on December 28, 2011.
  • Gradual implementation of the reporting obligation:
    • standard contracts: 7 October 2015
  • non-standard contracts: 7 April 2016.
For more information about the rules, procedures, techniques and organization requirements and responsibility for data reporting, please visit the special section  REMIT info  (http://www.rae.gr/site/categories_new/remit/remit1.csp) at RAE’s site and the specialized REMIT portal (https://www.acer-remit.eu/portal/home) at ACER’s site, where you can find a series of texts with non-binding instruactions for the application of the regulations, supportive instructions about the registration procedure of the participants and the recording procedures of the transaction as well as a Q&A section (on a monthly basis).

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