General issues

• The involvement of as an observer without voting rights in the RCC meetings will be settled at the beginning of 2007.

• In the meantime, ETRANS attended both the 1^st SG meeting and the 2^nd IG meeting. 

Priority I: Improvement and harmonization of CBT congestion management methods

• Three bilateral agreements on joint allocation of interconnection capacities have been signed between the following TSOs:

   

  • TERNA – RTE: – Interconnection Capacity Access Rules;

     

  • TERNA – APG: – Interconnection Capacity Access Rules;

     

  •  TERNA – HTSO: Greek and Italian Interconnection Capacity Access Rules;
• All these agreements handle:

   

  • the allocation of the interconnection capacity by means of yearly, monthly and daily uniform price auctions of physical transmission rights with different durations and profiles;

     

  • the use of the interconnection capacity by means of harmonized nomination procedures;

     

• There is a work in progress between TERNA and ELES to sign a similar agreement by the mid of 2007 and between TERNA and ETRANS to sign a similar agreement by 2008.

Priority VI: Assessment of markets arrangements