The Gas (Security of Supply and Network Codes) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

18.—(1) Article 26 is amended as follows.

(2) In paragraph 1—

(a) for “shall cooperate”, substitute “must cooperate with adjacent TSOs”; and

(b) for the last sentence, substitute “Where an adjacent TSO is a non-UK TSO, transmission system operators must endeavour to cooperate in these processes.”.

(3) At the end of paragraph 2, insert “Where the market demand report concerns any non-UK TSOs, the concerned transmission system operators must endeavour to produce that report in common with the non-UK TSOs.”.

(4) In paragraph 3, omit “in one or more official languages of the Member State and to the extent possible in English”.

(5) Omit paragraph 4.

(6) For paragraph 12(a), substitute—

“(a) the obligation on any concerned non-UK TSOs to take into account whether the Union-wide 10-year network development plan identifies a physical capacity gap whereby a specific region is undersupplied in a reasonable peak scenario and where offering incremental capacity at the interconnection point in question could close the gap; or any UK network development plan or national network development plan relevant to a concerned non-UK TSO identifies a concrete and sustained physical transport requirement;”.