The Common Business Practices

Common Business Practices (CBPs) are standards, procedures and/or protocols commonly used in the gas industry in Europe and recommended by EASEE-gas for adoption by all relevant industry players to simplify and streamline business processes across the whole of Europe .

Once CBPs are developed in the groups they are presented to the Executive Committee (ExCom) to consider.

If they are agreed, the CBPs are issued to the membership for final comments.

The final CBPs are then presented to the ExCom for approval and, if necessary, to a General Meeting of Members for ratification.

Three Common Business Practices (CBPs) approved in 2009

The Executive Committee has released three revised Common Business Practices on 19 May 2009.

  • CBP 2005-001-02 Gas Quality Harmonisation

and

  • CBP 2003-002-02 Harmonisation of Nominating and Matching Process
  • CBP 2005-002-02 Interconnection Agreement

CBP 2005-001-02 has undergone 3 complimentary updates. The wording of the CBP has been altered as to provide clarity for LNG Terminals. In addition, the oxygen specification has been adjusted as a result of the conducted Oxygen Survey, and historical data regarding quality variation are now included.

 CBP 2003-002-02 and CBP 2005-002-02 have been revised to extend the application area of the CBPs to other segments than TSO and Shipper, with a view to streamlining the relevant procedures at the interface with TSOs, SSOs, LTOs and producers (all together Infrastructure Operators - IO). 

For further information and the press release, please follow this link.

One new Common Business Practice (CBP) approved in May 2008

The Executive Committee has approved the CBP on Secondary Capacity Trading developed by the Business Rules working group. The CBP describes a set of recommendations for the trading of capacity rights, commonly known as secondary capacity trading, as described by article 8 of EC regulation 1775/2005.

For further information and the press release, please follow this link.

Seven Common Business Practices (CBPs) approved in 2007

The Executive Committee has approved a total of seven CBPs developed by the EDIG@S, the IT Communications & Network, the Codes & Definitions and the Business Rules working groups.

  • Harmonisation of Allocation Information Exchange;
  • Edig@s Release Periods;
  • Edig@s Protocol;
  • Company's Identifier encoding;
  • Connection Point Identifier encoding;
  • Common Data Communications Network;and
  • Message Transmission Protocol.

 

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Press releases