Publications

Press Releases
18.12.2019

MEMO joins Europex as Associate Member

Brussels, 18 December 2019 | MEMO Ltd, the National Electricity Market Operator of North Macedonia, has joined Europex as an Associate member as of today. MEMO was formally established on ...

Consultation Responses
29.11.2019

Europex response to the ESMA consultation on the review of the Market Abuse Regulation (MAR)

Brussels, 29 November 2019 | Europex, the Association of European Energy Exchanges, welcomes the initiation of the MAR review and would like to use this opportunity to underline the importance ...

Consultation Responses
12.11.2019

Tax challenges of the digitalisation of the economy: Joint EFET-Europex response to OECD public consultation on the “Secretariat Proposal for a “Unified Approach” under Pillar One”

Amsterdam/Brussels, 12 November 2019 | The European Federation of Energy Traders (EFET) and the Association of European Energy Exchanges (Europex) support the general objective of the OECD in securing a ...

Press Releases
23.10.2019

Ukrainian Energy Exchange (UEEX) joins Europex as Associate Member

Brussels, 23 October 2019 | UEEX, the Ukrainian Energy Exchange, has joined Europex as an Associate member as of today, 23 October 2019. Founded in 2010, UEEX operates markets in ...

Press Releases
30.09.2019

Europex General Assembly elects new leadership team for 2020-2021

Brussels, 30 September 2019 | The Europex General Assembly, during a regular meeting in Zadar, Croatia, on 27 September 2019, held elections for the upcoming 2020-2021 mandate. Pieter Schuurs, President ...

Consultation Responses
09.09.2019

Europex response to the ACER Public Consultation on the Bridge Beyond 2025

Brussels, 9 September 2019 | Europex welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the present consultation. Below, we provide comments on selected aspects thereof. To facilitate the discussion, we use the ...

Consultation Responses
06.08.2019

Europex response to the consultation on the draft Delegated Regulation adjusting the EU ETS auction process for 2021-30

Brussels, 6 August 2019 | Europex welcomes the opportunity to comment on the proposal for a Commission Delegated Regulation to align the auctioning of allowances with the EU ETS rules ...

Consultation Responses
30.07.2019

Consultation response: methodology for a co-optimised allocation process of cross zonal capacity for the exchange of balancing capacity or sharing of reserves

Brussels, 30 July 2019 | Europex is pleased to contribute to the consultation on the ‘All TSOs’ proposal for a methodology for a co-optimised allocation process of cross zonal capacity ...

Position Papers
15.07.2019

MiFIR Pre-Trade Transparency: Call for a Methodology for the Conversion of LIS Notional Values to Lots

Brussels, 15 July 2019 | Europex and its members are committed to working with ESMA and the NCAs to ensure that markets continue to become more transparent in line with ...

Consultation Responses
12.07.2019

Joint consultation response on the future of emissions trading in the UK

12 July 2019 | EFET, the Federation of European Energy Traders, and Europex, the Association of European Energy Exchanges welcome the opportunity to take part in the present consultation on ...

Consultation Responses
10.07.2019

Europex response to the EC Targeted Consultation for the Evaluation of the Guidelines on State Aid for Environmental Protection and Energy 2014-2020 (EEAG)

Brussels, 10 July 2019 | Europex, the Association of European Energy Exchanges, welcomes the opportunity to respond to the European Commission’s consultation in the context of the Evaluation of the ...

Consultation Responses
05.07.2019

Europex response to the ESMA call for evidence on position limits in commodity derivatives

Brussels, 5 July 2019 | Europex, the Association of European Energy Exchanges, welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the ESMA call for evidence on position limits and position management in ...

Press Releases
01.07.2019

SPIMEX joins Europex as Associate Member

Brussels, 1 July 2019 | SPIMEX, the Saint Petersburg International Mercantile Exchange, has joined Europex as an Associate member as of today, 1 July 2019. Founded in 2008, SPIMEX is ...

Consultation Responses
17.05.2019

Europex response to the CEER Public Consultation on Regulatory Challenges for a Sustainable Gas Sector

Brussels, 17 May 2019 | Europex is pleased to contribute to the present consultation on a sustainable gas sector and welcomes the associated stakeholder dialogue. We are convinced that gas ...

Consultation Responses
16.05.2019

Europex response to the Commission consultation on the revision of the EU ETS state aid guidelines

Brussels, 16 May 2019 | The EU ETS plays a vital role as the EU’s primary instrument for reducing greenhouse gas emissions cost-effectively while incentivising innovation and change. Importantly, well-functioning ...

Consultation Responses
14.05.2019

Europex response to the CEER Public Consultation on Dynamic Regulation to Enable Digitalisation of the Energy System

Brussels, 14 May 2019 | The CEER Consultation Paper on Dynamic Regulation to Enable Digitalisation of the Energy System elaborates on the implications of digitalisation for the energy sector and ...

Position Papers
09.05.2019

The “Road from Sibiu”: making use of markets for a cost-efficient and innovation-driven transition to full climate neutrality by 2050

Brussels, 9 May 2019 | Today, a long and intense debate on the “Future of Europe” that started two years ago in Rome comes to a close at a European ...

Consultation Responses
29.03.2019

Increasing the global competitiveness of European commodity markets to strengthen the role of the euro in the field of energy

Europex, the Association of European Energy Exchanges, welcomes the opportunity to take part in the European Commission’s Targeted consultation on the role of the euro in the field of energy. ...

Press Releases
26.03.2019

Europex welcomes strengthened role for long- and short- term markets under new EU electricity market design rules

Brussels / Strasbourg, 26 March 2019 | Europex, the Association of European Energy Exchanges, welcomes today’s adoption of the four remaining files of the Clean Energy for All Europeans package ...

Consultation Responses
20.03.2019

Europex feedback at intermediate stage of Commission study on sector coupling

Brussels, 20 March 2019 | Europex, the Association of European Energy Exchanges, welcomes the opportunity to provide feedback at this intermediate stage of the Commission study on “Potentials of sector ...

Consultation Responses
15.03.2019

Europex response to the BMF consultation on MiFID II experiences

Brussels, 15 March 2019 | Europex, the Association of European Energy Exchanges, welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the present consultation on MiFID II / MiFIR experiences1. In the following, we ...

Uncategorized
05.12.2018

XBID – 2nd Wave Go-Live and Changes in Gate Opening Time from 1st January 2019

For issue at 10:00h CET on Wednesday 5th December 2018 – to coincide with MESC meeting RE: XBID – 2nd Wave Go-Live and Changes in Gate Opening Time from 1st ...

Position Papers
08.11.2018

Article 13 (9) of the Electricity Regulation: The basic implementation phase for reconfigured bidding zones should be 24 instead of 12 months

Brussels, 8 November 2018 | Ensuring bidding zones are configured efficiently is necessary in order to address long-term structural congestion. However, any change to the configuration of bidding zones has ...

Position Papers
08.11.2018

Capacity allocation in Article 14 of the Electricity Regulation recast: Setting the right principles to maximise transmission capacity available for trading in order to foster further market integration

Brussels, 8 November 2018 | In the EU’s internal energy market, the amount of trade between bidding zones is constrained by the amount of available cross-zonal transmission capacity. Maximising the ...

Press Releases
12.10.2018

Europex General Assembly elects Jonas Törnquist as new Board Member and makes its farewell to Jean-François Conil-Lacoste

Brussels, 12 October 2018 | Related to the announced end of his mandate as Chairman and CEO of EPEX SPOT on 13 October 2018, Jean-François Conil-Lacoste will simultaneously resign from ...

Position Papers
11.10.2018

Electricity market design – Europex positions on the Electricity Regulation, Electricity Directive and the ACER Regulation

Brussels, 11 October 2018 | The trilogue negotiations for the electricity market design files (the draft recasts of the Electricity Regulation, Electricity Directive and ACER Regulation) are well under way. ...

Consultation Responses
09.10.2018

Europex response to the Commission consultation on the strategy for long-term EU greenhouse gas emissions reductions

Brussels, 9 October 2018 | Europex, the Association of European Energy Exchanges, welcomes the opportunity to participate in the present forward-looking consultation. In our response, we would like to underline ...

Press Releases
02.10.2018

Tackling VAT fraud: Europex welcomes the extension of the domestic reverse charge mechanism for electricity, gas and emissions trading

Brussels, 2 October 2018 | Europex welcomes today’s ECOFIN Council decision to extend the derogation in Article 199a of the VAT Directive which allows Member States to apply the domestic ...

Uncategorized
06.09.2018

European Cross-Border Intraday (XBID) Solution trades exceed 2.5 million since go-live

For issue at 15:00 CET on Thursday 6th September European Cross-Border Intraday (XBID) Solution trades exceed 2.5 million since go-live. Solution is stable and therefore availability of roll back systems ...

Position Papers
04.09.2018

Common energy sector statement – Keeping EU energy and emissions markets protected from VAT fraud beyond 2018

Urgent need to confirm the extension of the derogation for a domestic reverse charge mechanism for electricity, gas and emission allowances in Art. 199a of the VAT Directive Brussels, 4 ...