Energy Identification Coding Scheme (EIC)

Energy Identification Coding Scheme (EIC)

EIC ENTSOG LIO Procedures
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27 Feb 2013
Rev.0
DRAFT
Energy Identification Coding Scheme (EIC):
ENTSOG Local Issuing Office Procedures
INTRODUCTION
The Energy Identification Coding scheme (EIC), standardized and maintained by ENTSO-E,
provides a unique identification of the market participants and other entities active within the
Energy Internal European Market (IEM). It is widely used in the Electronic Document
Interchange.
The EIC is only a coding scheme and it is not a right or authorization to trade energy. Over and
above Market Participants (Parties - object type "X"), the EIC also covers other entities by
allocating a unique code to the following object types:
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Areas – object type “Y”, Areas for inter System Operator data interchange
Measuring Points – object type “Z”, Energy Metering points
Resource objects – object type “W”, such as Production plants, consumption units,
etc.
Tie-lines – object type “T”, International tie lines between areas
Location – object type “V”, Physical or logical place where a market participant or IT
system is located
The EIC is based on fixed length alphanumeric codes which can be broken down as follows:
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A 2-character number identifying the Issuing Office assigned by ENTSO-E.
One Character identifying the object type that the code represents.
12 digits, uppercase characters or minus signs allocated by the issuing office
1 check character to ensure the code validity.
Valid characters of an EIC code are A-Z, 0-9 and “-“.
For further information please refer to: ENTSO-E’s “THE ENERGY IDENTIFICATION CODING
SCHEME (EIC) REFERENCE MANUAL”.
ENTSOG AISBL; Av. de Cortenbergh 100, 1000-Brussels; Tel: +32 2 894 5100; Fax: +32 2 894 5101; [email protected]
www.entsog.eu, VAT No. BE0822 653 040
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ENTSOG LOCAL ISSUING OFFICE
As of 1 March 2013, the European Association for the Streamlining of Energy Exchange, EASEEgas, has relinquished its responsibilities as an EIC LIO in favour of the European Network of
Transmission System Operators for Gas, ENTSO-G. This transfer of responsibilities included
transfer of all existing codes issued by EASEE-gas.
The ENTSO-G Local Issuing Office (LIO) is authorized by ENTSO-E to supply EIC codes to any
recognized energy organization providing that they respect the minimum requirements defined
by ENTSO-E. The LIO is responsible for the allocation and maintenance of the codes it issues or
have been issued under party code 21 and it shall maintain a list of all issued codes and
standard data about the market participant identified by the code in its local Registry. It shall
ensure that the allocated codes are stable over time. This implies that the significance of a code
should always remain constant,
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For organizations: A code shall be allocated to identify an organization. A code defines
explicitly the organization in question. The organization should be reflected in the text
describing the company and it may be indicated in the name. Consequently, if the
organization merely changes its name, its code will not be modified.
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All allocated codes must respect the rules for establishing EIC codes as described in
ENTSO-E’s “THE ENERGY IDENTIFICATION CODING SCHEME (EIC) REFERENCE MANUAL”.
ENTSO-G LIO issues only international codes related to gas industry.
ENTSO-G LIO ensures that the codes under its responsibility remain current and respect the
rules laid down by ENTSO-E. This means that errors found by the Central Issuing Office or other
Local Issuing Offices shall be corrected.
ENTSO-G LIO ensures to the best of its ability that the parties, to whom it has allocated codes,
will inform it of any changes in the registration.
ENTSO-G LIO shall take all the measures possible to correct any anomaly reported to it and shall
ensure that the anomaly is rectified in the shortest possible delay.
ENTSO-G LIO provides the following services:
 A web page which provides the necessary services including:
o Inquiry for a new code, modification or suspension of an existing code
o Download facility for already issued codes in compliance with the ENTSO-E XML
schema
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Management of the codes already issued or that will be issued by LIO 21
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The supply of all international assigned codes to the Central Issuing Office containing the
standard participant information and their allocated EI codes.
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The submission of a deactivation request to the Central Issuing Office in the case where
an EIC is no longer in use.
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The verification in the central Registry that a code has not already been allocated for the
party in question. If a code has already been allocated, the requestor of the code shall be
informed of the code in question.
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The supply, to a request from an energy partner, of all the standard details concerning a
party.
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The submission of any updates of participant information provided by the parties.
OBJECT TYPES
Currently the following types of object have been identified in the coding scheme, other types
of EIC code may be added with the agreement of ENTSO-E:
 PARTY (EIC OBJECT TYPE X):
A party is allowed to have only one EIC code for a given organisation that has a legal standing
within the Energy Internal European Market (IEM). The EIC X code is generally used to identify a
Balance or Trade Responsible Party in a data interchange. However having an EIC code is not a
reason to allow a party to participate in any energy market. To ensure this, the party has
necessarily to be registered according to local market rules.
For international trading groups it is recommended to use a single unique EIC code for
identifying the party for cross border flows in all countries. If the legal party in the contract is a
local subsidiary this party should be seen as an invoice party with its own EIC code with regard
to electronic data interchange.
 AREA (EIC OBJECT TYPE Y):
All areas involved in inter System Operator data interchange must be identified on a central
basis. This means that in the gas sector EIC Y codes are used to identify internal connection
points within a single System Operator’s scope.
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MEASUREMENT POINT (EIC OBJECT TYPE Z):
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A measurement point identifies a physical or logical point that is used to identify an object
where the measurement of energy takes place. In gas sector specifically, EIC Z codes are used to
identify a physical or logical location that can be used to store, meter or extract gas into or out
of an area, provided that there are different System Operators responsible at each side of the
location.
 RESOURCE OBJECT (EIC OBJECT TYPE W):
EIC W codes are used to identify different resource objects, such as production units,
consumption plants.
 TIE-LINE (EIC OBJECT TYPE T) – not used by ENTSO-G LIO:
EIC T codes are used to identify the physical lines that connect together two Market Balance
Areas to closely follow interconnection capabilities.
 LOCATION (EIC OBJECT TYPE V):
EIC V codes are used to identify a location, which means a physical or logical place where a party
or an IT system of a party is or could be located. A location has necessarily an EIC Responsible
Party associated with it.
Within the ENTSO-G LIO environment this is called an “Application Context” which is used to
identify a particular context (location, application, etc.) that is significant for the recipient of an
electronic document.
EIC CODE INFORMATION REQUIREMENTS
The following basic information is required in order to enable the allocation of an EIC code:
 EIC name:
The official name assigned to the EIC code. For a Party code it shall identify the name of
the party. For an Area code it shall identify the name of the area, etc.
 Display name:
A short name to be used for display on screen and verbal communication. Within each
category (Party, area, metering point, etc.) the Display name shall be unique.
 EIC parent:
In case of a subsidiary or a sub-area, the EIC code of the owner.
 EAN code:
The EAN code used by the party in markets using EAN instead of EIC. This shall only be
provided for EIC party codes if such a code is available.
 VAT code:
This is only provided for Party codes and identifies the European VAT code of the party in
question.
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Function: The functional use of the code, e.g. "Shipper", "Connection point", etc.
The roles names identified as functions are: Balance group, Balance responsible party,
Balance supplier, Capacity trader, Connection Point, Consumer, Consumption
responsible party, Coordinating Scheduler, Grid access provider, Grid operator,
Imbalance settlement responsible, Information Provider, Interconnection trade
responsible, Market operator, Metered data collector, Metered data responsible,
Metering point administrator, Nomination Validator, Party connected to grid, Producer,
Production responsible party, Resource Provider, System operator, Trade responsible
party, Transmission capacity allocator
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