The liberalization process aimed at the creation of an internal gas market has significantly changed the gas transmission business and increased the need for transparency. In this respect specific obligations for TSOs have been introduced through the European as well as national legislation.

Even though various information is made available by individual TSOs, network users may still face difficulties when wanting to transport gas across Europe due to differences in market models applied across the European network. The Transparency Platform has been therefore designed to facilitate access to transmission networks by, among other things, making the various information available in an organised and structured way on a single website.

The Platform will be based on information that is already published by individual TSOs on their websites. Provision of information that may currently not be subject to obligatory publishing will be made available by TSOs on voluntary basis as their contribution to the creation of a single European gas market. TSOs will apply the confidentiality rules they are subject to under their national legislation.

Units used by individual TSOs will be converted to one common unit using conversion factors supplied by the TSOs. Those conversion factors will be available for users to consult.  As an exception to the rule, units used for capacity product prices will not be converted and will be shown as published by the TSO (regulator).

As an additional functionality, the Transparency Platform will offer to its users to search for a route across the European gas transmission networks by selecting only the starting entry and the ending exit points. A route summary will consequently be generated giving the user an overview of available monthly capacities along the route and other useful information.

The Transparency Platform will also publish links to individual TSOs’ websites dedicated to TPA information offering thus a useful navigation tool for gas network users.

Until Launch date :
please visit the GTE Operational Procedures Interactive map

- User Instructions (coming soon)
- conversion factors (coming soon)

The Transparency Platform publishes information that is publicly available and does not include any restricted or confidential information.

GIE cannot be held liable for the accuracy and timeliness of the information provided. Specific data update is made by transmission system operators themselves for the points they operate, with some updates being validated by GIE for consistency purposes. The information provided through this Platform should not, under any circumstances, be regarded as legally binding on the transmission system operators and appropriate steps to verify this information should be taken before acting upon it. Any further or more detailed information should be sought from the relevant companies.

GIE reserves the right to remove any information or material from the Platform without warning, and without prejudice to any other accrued rights.