1. Bjørn W Melaa Excom Vice Chairman The Gas Regional Initiatives and the CBP "working towards a standardised European gas network"

2. Who is EASEE-gas? What are the CBPs? The service proposed by EASEE-gas

3. Who is EASEE-gas? What are the CBPs? The service proposed by EASEE-gas

4. European Association for the Streamlining of Energy - gas Exchange- gas Mission: "to develop and promote common practices to simplify and streamline business processes between the stakeholders that will lead to an efficient and effective European Gas Market" Created in March 2002 with the support of the Madrid Forum Member States Industry European Commission Regulators

5. Few participants, stable and long lasting relationships Before new regulation With new regulation Hence need to streamline transactional processes Many players, short lived and fast changing relationships

6. Ownership of gasPhysical flow of gas Producers End Users Transporters Distribution Network Operators Suppliers Retail Suppliers LNG Terminal and Storage Operator and Service Provider (LTSOSP) Traders & Shippers Associate Members Members are from the entire European gas chain

7. 86 full members & 25 associate members 6 segments currently active

8. Provides a unique structured platform in Europe where gas industry participants can: -discuss harmonisation & simplification of business process -agree on CBP, on a voluntary basis "Voluntarism is better than regulation" Will not advocate before any regulatory body The US example shows it works

9. Who is EASEE-gas? What are the CBPs? The service proposed by EASEE-gas

10. CBP aim to deal with "user oriented purposes", and with the whole description of the process: business process, message and workflow design, technology standard It is essential to monitoring implementation business process message & workflow design technology standard implementation CBP "Common Business Pratice"

11. CBP 2003-002-01(02)Harmonisation of units CBP 2003-002-01Harmonisation of nomination and matching process CBP 2003-003-02Edig@s protocol CBP 2005-001-01Harmonisation of gas quality CBP 2005-002-01Interconnection agreement CBP 2005-003-01Constraints CBP 2007-001-01Message transmission protocol CBP 2007-002-01Common data network CBP 2007-003-01Company's identifier encoding CBP 2007-004-01Connexion point identifier encoding CBP 2007-005-01Edig@s release periods CBP 2007-006-01 CBP 2006-000-01 Harmonisation of the allocation information exchange Secondary capacity trading Existing CBPs: current situation tbi tbc tbc : to be completed tbi : to be implemented

12. Who is EASEE-gas? What are the CBPs? The service proposed by EASEE-gas

13. Action plan 2008 1. Implement existing CBPs 2. Complete existing CBPs 3. "Transpose" existing CBPs to other segments 4. Draw up new CBPs

14. implementation Action plan 2008 1. Implement existing CBPs Make implementation easier –Help desk –Inform EASEE-gas members & partners for IT preparation –Set up a responsible contact list for implementation, for each company Propose to monitor implementation –Set up a CBP preparation & implementation timetable (eg. "company x CBP") –Set up "EASEE-gas workshops" dedicated to implementation issues

15. technology standard message & workflow design Action plan 2008 2. Complete existing CBPs CBP 2003-002-01 Harmonisation of nomination and matching process CBP 2006-000-01 Harmonisation of the allocation information exchange CBP 2007-006-01 Secondary capacity trading Common manual for sales agreements "Dictionary of terms & definitions"

16. technology standard business process message & workflow design CBP 2003-002-01 TSO / producer TSO / regas operator TSO / storage operator regas nominations storage nominations CBP 2005-002-01 TSO / producer TSO / regas operator TSO / storage operator CBP 2006-000-01 regas capacity storage capacity CBP 2007-006-01 regas capacity storage capacity Action plan 2008 3. "Transpose" existing CBPs to other segment harmonisation of nomination and matching process harmonisation of the allocation information exchange secondary capacity trading interconnection agreement

17. business process Commodity trading arrangements (cf. Efet) Shipping-swapping Changing supplier Explore and develop ways for the consultation process, with GTE+ Action plan 2008 4. Draw up new CBPs technology standard message & workflow design

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