Regulation (EU) 2024/1789

means the discretionary combination of any entry capacity with any exit capacity or vice versa;

means the sum of transmission service revenue and non-transmission service revenue for the provision of services by the transmission system operator for a specific time period within a given regulatory period which such transmission system operator is entitled to obtain under a non-price cap regime and which is set in accordance with Article 78(7), point (a), of Directive (EU) 2024/1788;

means ancillary services as defined in Article 2, point (36), of Directive (EU) 2024/1788;

means the part of the technical capacity that is not allocated and that is still available to the system at a particular moment;

means the period within which the off-take of an amount of natural gas or hydrogen, expressed in units of energy, is to be offset by every network user by means of the injection of the same amount of natural gas or hydrogen in accordance with the network code;

means balancing zone as defined in Article 2, point (58), of Directive (EU) 2024/1788;

means the maximum flow, expressed in normal cubic meters per time unit or in energy unit per time unit, to which the network user is entitled in accordance with the provisions of the transport contract;

means firm capacity that entails transparent and predefined conditions for either providing access from and to the virtual trading point or limited allocability;

means management of the capacity portfolio of the transmission system operator with a view to optimal and maximum use of the technical capacity and the timely detection of future congestion and saturation points;

means capacity that has been allocated to a network user by means of a transport contract;

means a situation where the level of firm capacity demand exceeds the technical capacity;

means control as defined in Article 2, point (55), of Directive (EU) 2024/1788;

means customer as defined in Article 2, point (47), of Directive (EU) 2024/1788;

means the rate at which the storage facility user is entitled to withdraw natural gas or hydrogen from the natural gas storage facility or hydrogen storage facility;

means distribution as defined in Article 2, point (19), of Directive (EU) 2024/1788;

means distribution system operator as defined in Article 2, point (20), of Directive (EU) 2024/1788;

means energy efficiency first as defined in Article 2, point (18), of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 of the European Parliament and of the Council;

means entry point as defined in Article 2, point (61), of Directive (EU) 2024/1788;

means entry-exit system as defined in Article 2, point (57), of Directive (EU) 2024/1788;

means exit point as defined in Article 2, point (62), of Directive (EU) 2024/1788;

means final customer as defined in Article 2, point (50), of Directive (EU) 2024/1788;

means natural gas and hydrogen transmission and distribution capacity contractually guaranteed as uninterruptible by the transmission system operator or, where applicable, the distribution system operator, or the hydrogen network operator;

means hydrogen distribution network as defined in Article 2, point (24), of Directive (EU) 2024/1788;

means hydrogen distribution network operator as defined in Article 2, point (27), of Directive (EU) 2024/1788;

means hydrogen interconnector as defined in Article 2, point (40), of Directive (EU) 2024/1788;

means hydrogen network as defined in Article 2, point (21), of Directive (EU) 2024/1788;

means hydrogen network operator as defined in Article 2, point (25), of Directive (EU) 2024/1788;

means hydrogen quality as defined in Article 2, point (10), of Directive (EU) 2024/1788;

means a hydrogen storage facility as defined in Article 2, point (5), of Directive (EU) 2024/1788;

means a hydrogen storage operator as defined in Article 2, point (6), of Directive (EU) 2024/1788;

means hydrogen system as defined in Article 2, point (4), of Directive (EU) 2024/1788;

means hydrogen terminal as defined in Article 2, point (8), of Gas Directive (EU) 2024/1788;

means hydrogen terminal operator as defined in Article 2, point (9), of Directive (EU) 2024/1788;

means hydrogen transmission network as defined in Article 2, point (23), of Directive (EU) 2024/1788;

means hydrogen transmission network operator as defined in Article 2, point (26), of Directive (EU) 2024/1788;

means hydrogen transport as defined in Article 2, point (22), of Directive (EU) 2024/1788;

means the rate at which the storage facility user is entitled to inject natural gas or hydrogen into the natural gas storage facility or hydrogen storage facility;

means interconnection point as defined in Article 2, point (63), of Directive (EU) 2024/1788;

means interconnector as defined in Article 2, point (39), of Gas Directive (EU) 2024/1788;

means interoperability as defined in Article 2, point (71), of Directive (EU) 2024/1788;

means natural gas or hydrogen transmission capacity that may be interrupted by the transmission system operator or, where applicable, the distribution system operator, or the hydrogen network operator, in accordance with the conditions stipulated in the transport contract;

means services offered by the transmission system operator or, where applicable, the distribution system operator, or the hydrogen network operator in relation to interruptible capacity;

means long-term contract as defined in Article 2, point (56), of Directive (EU) 2024/1788;

means services offered by the transmission system operator or, where applicable, the distribution system operator, or the hydrogen network operator with a duration of one year or more;

means low-carbon gas as defined in Article 2, point (12), of Directive (EU) 2024/1788;

means low-carbon hydrogen as defined in Article 2, point (11), of Directive (EU) 2024/1788;

means market participant as defined in Article 2, point (65), of Directive (EU) 2024/1788;

means natural gas as defined in Article 2, point (1), of Directive (EU) 2024/1788;

means natural gas storage facility as defined in Article 2, point (31), of Directive (EU) 2024/1788;

means natural gas storage system operator as defined in Article 2, point (32), of Directive (EU) 2024/1788;

means natural gas system as defined in Article 2, point (3), of Directive (EU) 2024/1788;

means network user as defined in Article 2, point (60), of Directive (EU) 2024/1788;

means an infrastructure not completed by 4 August 2003;

means the reporting by the network user to the transmission system operator of the actual flow that the network user wishes to inject into or withdraw from the system, prior to such an injection or withdrawal;

means a situation where the level of demand for actual deliveries exceeds the technical capacity at a particular moment;

means the market of the capacity traded directly by the transmission system operator or, where applicable, the distribution system operator, or the hydrogen transmission network operator;

means the reporting of a corrected nomination, subsequent to a nomination;

means the network assets of a transmission system operator, distribution system operator, hydrogen transmission network operator and hydrogen distribution network operator used for the provision of regulated network services that are taken into account when calculating network-related service revenue;

means renewable gas as defined in Article 2, point (2), of Directive (EU) 2024/1788;

means repurposing as defined in Article 2, point (18), of Regulation (EU) 2022/869;

means the market of the capacity traded otherwise than on the primary market;

means services offered by the transmission system operator or, where applicable, the distribution system operator, or the or hydrogen network operator with a duration of less than one year;

means the volume of natural gas or hydrogen which a user of a storage facility is entitled to use for the storage of natural gas or hydrogen;

means any combination of space, injectability and deliverability;

means supply as defined in Article 2, point (28), of Directive (EU) 2024/1788;

means system as defined in Article 2, point (35), of Directive (EU) 2024/1788;

means any situation in which the pressure and the quality of the natural gas natural gas or hydrogen remain within the minimum and maximum limits, so that the transport of natural gas or hydrogen is guaranteed from a technical standpoint;

means system user as defined in Article 2, point (46), of Directive (EU) 2024/1788;

means the sum of expected transmission service revenue calculated in accordance with the principles set out in Article 17(1) and expected non-transmission service revenue for the provision of services by the transmission system operator for a specific time period within a given regulatory period under a price cap regime;

means the maximum firm capacity that can be offered to the network users, taking account of system integrity and the operational requirements of the transmission system operator or, where applicable, the distribution system operator, or the hydrogen network operator;

means transmission as defined in Article 2, point (17), of Directive (EU) 2024/1788;

means transmission system operator as defined in Article 2, point (18), of Directive (EU) 2024/1788;

means a contract which the transmission system operator or hydrogen network operator has concluded with a network user with a view to carrying out transport services for natural gas or hydrogen;

means firm capacity which a network user has acquired under a transport contract but which that user has not nominated by the deadline specified in the contract;

means upstream pipeline network as defined in Article 2, point (16), of Directive (EU) 2024/1788;

means vertically integrated undertaking as defined in Article 2, point (43), of Directive (EU) 2024/1788.

means virtual interconnection point as defined in Article 2, point (64), of Directive (EU) 2024/1788;

means virtual trading point as defined in Article 2, point (59), of Directive (EU) 2024/1788;

means wholesale customer as defined in Article 2, point (51), of Directive (EU) 2024/1788;