1.6 VALIDITY AND EXTRAORDINARY UPDATING PROCESS

Section 5 – Services - describes the services included in the access charge, and those provided by the infrastructure manager to the undertaking for an extra charge;

Section 6 – Charges - describes the reporting rules, in respect of the infrastructure Access Contract, and the system for calculating and levying the access charges, including the services not included therein. This Network Statement has been drafted in accordance with the RNE Network Statement Common Structure. Therefore, Applicants from the various countries may access similar documents and find the relevant information in the same position of the respective Network Statements.

1.6 VALIDITY AND EXTRAORDINARY UPDATING PROCESS

1.6.1 Validity Period (updated in December 2019)

This document provides:  the rules and procedures governing capacity requests and the related allocation process entering into effect on 14 March 2020, with regard to the working timetable from 13 December 2020 to 11 December 2021;  the rules and information governing the obligations and responsibilities of RFI and RU/Applicants, with reference to the signing and implementation of the relevant agreements (Framework Agreement and Access Contract), regarding the working timetable from 13 December 2020 to 11 December 2021.

1.6.2 Ordinary updating process

The procedure for updating this document shall comply with the following obligations and timeframe:

a) within 30 June of year X, the IM prepares and publishes the first draft of the NS for year X+2, highlighting in different colours the changed parts (with respect to the applicable NS), including a report containing the reasons for the changes introduced, and presents it to all the parties concerned, based on a transparent and non-discriminatory consulting process, subject to the deadline of 31 July of year X, regarding the formalisation of any observations by the parties concerned by the consultation; b) within 20 August of year X, the IM publishes the observations received by the parties concerned; c) within 30 September of year X, the IM publishs and sends to the TRA the final draft of the NS X+2, highlighting in different colours the parts of the NS that have been changed (with respect to the applicable NS), respectively at the request of the previously consulted parties and on its own initiative, together with an accompanying report illustrating the meanings and assessments underlying the changes introduced, and the reasons for allowing or rejecting the observations formulated by each party consulted in the process; d) within the second week of December in year X, the IM shall publish the NS X+2, which regards the conditions relating to the contract relationships that will develop from the capacity request for the operating timetable effective from December (X+1) to December (X+2); the name of the document will be “Network Statement X+2”; e) the NS X+2 shall enter into force on the second Friday of March of year X+1. The publication obligations mentioned above shall be complied with following the publication on the IM’s website.