Publications

Consultation Responses
28.07.2021

All TSOs’ Proposal for Amendment of Pricing Methodology

Europex fully supports the EU target design for balancing energy markets, including the implementation of cross-border marginal pricing. However, during the transition to the European balancing platforms, we acknowledge the ...
Consultation Responses
27.07.2021

ACER public consultation on the high-level approach for the identification of alternative bidding zone configurations to be considered for the bidding zone review

Bidding zones are a fundamental part of the electricity market design in Europe. Adequate attention must be paid to the development of alternative bidding zone configurations as well as their ...
Consultation Responses
22.07.2021

Feedback on the draft Climate, Energy and Environmental Aid Guidelines (CEEAG)

To ensure that the policy objectives set out in the Green Deal get delivered at least cost and that the EU’s internal market principles are upheld, State Aid rules need ...
Consultation Responses
15.07.2021

ESMA Consultation on Technical Standards for Commodity Derivatives – MiFID II Recovery Package

We welcome the opportunity to provide feedback to ESMA’s draft proposals for the review of RTS 21 and ITS 4 as well as the proposal for new technical standards for ...
Press Releases
14.07.2021

‘Fit for 55’ package: a coherent, competitive and innovation-friendly market framework must drive 2030 decarbonisation efforts

The ‘Fit for 55’ Package underlines the common understanding that competitive energy and emissions markets must drive decarbonisation efforts at least cost to the energy system and consumers while ensuring ...
Position Papers
14.07.2021

Fit for 70% RES? The role of the electricity market in a high-renewables energy system in 2030

We believe that a 2030 energy system that can meet these challenges must be characterised by undistorted and freely forming price signals from the energy market, efficient use of within-zone ...
Consultation Responses
29.06.2021

ACER Consultation on the Draft Framework Guideline on sector- specific rules for cybersecurity aspects of cross-border electricity flows

Together with the All NEMO Committee, we welcome this opportunity to provide input on ACER’s draft Framework Guideline on electricity sector-specific rules for cybersecurity and see the value in ensuring ...

Consultation Responses
24.06.2021

Draft Delegated Act on MiFID II Ancillary Activity Exemption

Europex welcomes the opportunity to provide feedback to the Commission’s public consultation on the draft delegated act for amending the ancillary activity exemption (AAE) in MiFID II. We welcome the ...

Consultation Responses
18.06.2021

Consultation on the Hydrogen and Gas Markets Decarbonisation Package

Europex fully supports this review of the legislative framework to design competitive decarbonised gas markets and ensure that gas markets contribute to the decarbonisation of the energy system. Traded markets ...

Position Papers
16.06.2021

Call for Harmonised Implementation of the Clean Energy Package: Independent Aggregation Rules to Unlock Full Potential of Demand-side Flexibility

Independent Aggregators (IAs) have the potential to provide an additional means of accessing the market for small producers and end consumers, including prosumers, small-scale RES producers and DSR flexibility providers. ...

Consultation Responses
10.06.2021

Public consultation on reasoned amendments to CACM 2.0

The Capacity Allocation & Congestion Management (CACM) Guideline provides a vital set of rules for the operation of cross-border electricity markets and sets the basis for the methodology for calculating ...

Consultation Responses
03.06.2021

Review of the Harmonised Allocation Rules for long-term transmission rights and regional annexes

Europex does not see adequate justification to extend the HAR Article 59 compensation caps to LTTR remuneration during decoupling events. ...
Position Papers
31.05.2021

Carbon Contracts for Difference (CCfDs) and their potentially distortive effects on emission markets: call for a comprehensive impact assessment

Carbon Contracts for Difference (CCfDs) have been broadly discussed as a potential instrument to support energy-intensive industries in developing and deploying low-carbon technologies. In its New Industrial Strategy, the Commission ...

Consultation Responses
27.05.2021

Auctioning of statistical transfers: a more efficient tool for Member State cooperation on renewable energy targets for RED III

Europex welcomes the opportunity to provide feedback to this draft delegated regulation. While the current proposal for the Union Renewable Development Platform (URDP) is designed to facilitate statistical transfers between ...

Consultation Responses
13.05.2021

ENTSO-E Consultation on Options for the Design of European Electricity Markets in 2030

Europex appreciates ENTSO-E’s efforts to trigger a constructive debate on market design and has provided input on selected questions. Significant volumes of RES-E are already being traded in the day-ahead ...

Consultation Responses
10.05.2021

Targeted consultation on the review of the Directive on financial collateral arrangements

We see benefit in adding the emission allowances to the definition of financial instruments in the FCD, making it also more closely aligned to the financial instruments definition in Annex ...
Consultation Responses
03.05.2021

VAT rules for financial and insurance services

Europex welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the present consultation. In our response, we highlight that the regime on VAT rules for financial services subject to the exemption from VAT ...

Consultation Responses
30.04.2021

ACER consultation on cross-zonal capacity allocation methodologies for Hansa, Core and Baltic CCRs

Europex welcomes this opportunity to respond to ACER’s public consultation on cross-zonal capacity allocation methodologies for Hansa, Core, and Baltic CRRs. Regarding the timeframe, we agree with ACER’s approach to ...

Press Releases
15.04.2021

Joint industry letter on the importance of linking the UK ETS with the EU ETS

Europex has joined with over 40 leading industry associations to call on the EU and UK to begin the process of linking the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) with ...

Consultation Responses
13.04.2021

The Digital Levy

Europex supports the Commission’s overall objective to ensure a fair taxation of the digital economy in Europe in line with the wider policy objectives set by the G20 and the ...

Consultation Responses
31.03.2021

Block Bids – A new approach for the allocation of long-term transmission rights

Europex welcomes the opportunity to comment on this joint TSO and NRA consultation on the so-called ‘block bids’ approach to LTTR allocation. We provide below selected questions from our response. ...

Consultation Responses
25.03.2021

CACM 2.0 – feedback to ACER scoping issues

Europex and the All NEMO Committee appreciate the opportunity to engage in this dialogue concerning the review of CACM GL. The rules established in CACM are partly the result of ...

Consultation Responses
12.03.2021

The European Single Access Point (ESAP) for financial and non-financial information publicly disclosed by companies

Europex welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the present consultation and expresses its general support for the Commission’s good intention to facilitate the access and comparability of publicly disclosed financial ...

Consultation Responses
10.03.2021

Feedback to the Commission IIA on ‘Hydrogen and Gas Markets Decarbonisation Package’

The progressive evolution of the gas legislative framework is a necessary prerequisite to ensure gas markets are ready to integrate and foster the use of renewable and low-carbon gases while ...

Consultation Responses
19.02.2021

ACER-ENTSOG Consultation on “Greater flexibility to book firm capacity at IPs”

Europex welcomes the opportunity to contribute to this ACER-ENTSOG consultation collecting stakeholder input on the proposal raised by EFET on the Gas Network Code Functionality Platform. Europex generally supports the ...

Reports
12.02.2021

The Essential Tasks of Delegated Operators in the Electricity Market

In a number of EU / EEA Member States, Energy Community Contracting Parties and Great Britain, certain essential functions related to the operation of the balancing market are carried out ...

Consultation Responses
10.02.2021

Inception Impact Assessment on the Digital Levy

Europex supports the Commission’s overall objective to ensure a fair taxation of the digital economy in line with the wider G20 and OECD discussions and welcomes the opportunity to comment ...

Consultation Responses
09.02.2021

Review of RED II on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources

Europex welcomes this opportunity to contribute to the Commission consultation of the Review of RED II on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources. In this paper ...

Consultation Responses
04.02.2021

Updating the EU Emissions Trading System

Europex welcomes the opportunity to participate in the Commission’s public consultation to update the EU Emission Trading System (EU ETS) and align it with the increased decarbonisation targets. The EU ...

Consultation Responses
07.01.2021

Public Consultation for the Revision of the Guidelines on State aid for Environmental protection and Energy 2014-2020 (EEAG)

Europex recognises the need to review the EEAG guidelines in the context of the European Green Deal initiatives and the objective of achieving climate neutrality by 2050. The revised guidelines ...