Publication of insider information

Effective and Timely Disclosure of
Insider Information under REMIT
Dr. Marcus Mittendorf
Ostrava, 3/4 December 2014
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Requirement to disclose insider information
Publication of insider information (Art. 4.1)
− Market participants shall publicly disclose in an effective and
timely manner inside information which they possess in respect
of business or facilities which the market participant concerned, or
its parent undertaking or related undertaking, owns or controls or for
whose operational matters that market participant or undertaking is
responsible, either in whole or in part.
− Such disclosure shall include information relevant to the capacity and
use of facilities for production, storage, consumption or
transmission of electricity or natural gas or related to the capacity
and use of LNG facilities, including planned or unplanned
Only power
unavailability of these facilities.”
production?
What is effective?
What is timely?
Tresholds?
What is insider
information?
Is it me or the
counterparty?
How binding is the
non-binding guidance?
Make sure the extent of the disclosure requirement is understood.
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Requirement to disclose insider information
Publication of insider information (Art. 4.1)
− Market participants shall publicly disclose in an effective and
timely manner inside information which they possess in respect
of business or facilities which the market participant concerned, or
its parent undertaking or related undertaking, owns or controls or for
whose operational matters that market participant or undertaking is
responsible, either in whole or in part.
− Such disclosure shall include information relevant to the capacity and
use of facilities for production, storage, consumption or
transmission of electricity or natural gas or related to the capacity
and use of LNG facilities, including planned or unplanned
unavailability of these facilities.”
Safeguard disclosure of insider information for all group companies.
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Requirement to disclose insider information
Publication of insider information (Art. 4.1)
− Market participants shall publicly disclose in an effective and
timely manner inside information which they possess in respect
of business or facilities which the market participant concerned, or
its parent undertaking or related undertaking, owns or controls or for
whose operational matters that market participant or undertaking is
responsible, either in whole or in part.
− Such disclosure shall include information relevant to the capacity and
use of facilities for production, storage, consumption or
transmission of electricity or natural gas or related to the capacity
and use of LNG facilities, including planned or unplanned
unavailability of these facilities.”
Unavailability and not remaining availability of facilities is required.
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Requirement to disclose insider information
Publication of insider information (Art. 4.1)
− Market participants shall publicly disclose in an effective and
timely manner inside information which they possess in respect
of business or facilities which the market participant concerned, or
its parent undertaking or related undertaking, owns or controls or for
whose operational matters that market participant or undertaking is
responsible, either in whole or in part.
− Such disclosure shall include information relevant to the capacity and
use of facilities for production, storage, consumption or
transmission of electricity or natural gas or related to the capacity
and use of LNG facilities, including planned or unplanned
unavailability of these facilities.”
The entire value chain for power, natural gas and LNG is effected.
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Insider information may vary with market
size, tight market situations …
Art. 2 (1) REMIT: „Insider information means information of a precise nature which has not been made
public…which relates, directly or indirectly, to one or more wholesale energy products and which, if it
were made public, would be likely to significantly affect the prices of those wholesale energy products.
What does information mean?
a.
information published
in accordance with
714/2009* &
715/2009 with
ENTSO-E/G
(= transparency
information)
b.
• any capacity, use,
availability
• production, storage,
consumption or
transmission
• electricity, natural
gas, LNG
c.
information
disclosed in
accordance with
provisions at Union
or national level,
market rules, and
contracts or customs
d.
other information that
a reasonable market
participant would be
likely to use as part of
the basis of its
decision
* Amended by so-called Transparency Regulation 543/2013.
Insider information include transparency information but go much beyond.
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What can be reported to and disclosed on
the EEX Transparency platform?
Capacity, use & availability of
facilities for …
Power
Production
Storage
Natural Gas
LNG
in preparation
–
available for facilities
available for facilities
available for facilities
Consumption
Ad-hoc Ticker
–
Available for business and facilities
Effective disclosure of insider information at a neutral place.
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How to navigate?
Full scope of Art. 4.1
of REMIT
Countries
Value chain
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e.g. outage messages
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Two options to view outage messages
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Full track of all incoming outage reports (I/II)
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Full track of all incoming outage reports (II/II)
Period reported
Planned
maintenance
were canceled
Period concerned
Unscheduled
outage ended
earlier than
expected
Period concerned
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Planned event
will start earlier
and
longer
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Effective disclosure ˗ why platforms?
3rd ACER Guidance, page 41
Some 30,000 data user observe the transparency website monthly.
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Timely disclosure ˗ electronic signals!
Monitoring of publication time stamps allows to steer internal processes.
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Requirement to forward insider information
9 months after entry into
force of REMIT IA
since December 2011
Publication of insider information (Art. 4.1)
−
−
Market participants shall publicly disclose in an effective and timely manner
inside information which they possess in respect of business or facilities
which the market participant concerned, or its parent undertaking or related
undertaking, owns or controls or for whose operational matters that market
participant or undertaking is responsible, either in whole or in part.
Such disclosure shall include information relevant to the capacity and use of
facilities for production, storage, consumption or transmission of electricity
or natural gas or related to the capacity and use of LNG facilities, including
planned or unplanned unavailability of these facilities.”
Submission of insider information (Art. 8.5)
−
Market participants shall provide the Agency and national regulatory authorities
with information related to the capacity and use of facilities for production,
storage, consumption or transmission of electricity or natural gas or
related to the capacity and use of LNG facilities, including planned or
unplanned unavailability of these facilities, for the purpose of monitoring
trading in wholesale energy markets. The reporting obligations on market
participants shall be minimised by collecting the required information or parts
thereof from existing sources where possible.
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EEX Transparency Platform:
one-stop-shop for REMIT & More
Power production
Power consumption
Power production
and storage
Natural gas
consumption
…
Company A
Company B
Company C
Company D
Company E
option for power producers/
consumers to chose data provider
under Art. 4 of Reg. 543/2013
NRAs
ACER
Insider information
under REMIT
Insider information
under REMIT
ENTSO-E
TSOs
Power production and consumption
under Transparency Regulation
543/2013
…
…
Cross-regulation data definitions allow to use synergies.
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Value added in brief
Power, Natural
Gas & LNG
Standardized
but flexible
reporting
One platform with a comprehensive offering across commodities and market areas
One-stop-shop for data collection, disclosure and forwarding
Insider information can vary with the size of the market, tight market situations etc.
Requirements of Transparency Regulation 543/2013 for outage information of
100 MW might not be sufficient
Power: outage information can be released from 10 MW/15min upwards for any
generation, storage or consumption unit
Receipt &
acknowledgements
Receipt provided for any incoming data set
Data validation checks support companies to achieve the best available data quality
Provided Publish_Acknowledgement for outage information can be used to steer
internal processes (e.g. traffic lights, hands-off approach)
Community of
reporting
companies
Market participants have to ‘read’ REMIT themselves as no complete clarity is given
by the text itself and ACER (e.g. tresholds)
20 reporting members frequently discuss with EEX matters of implementation and
finetune rules while leaving the ultimate decision with the responsible company
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42 reporting companies from 6 countries ˗
expansion to Switzerland in preparation
power
gas
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Conclusion
Market participants need to ensure compliance with the insider disclosure
requirement also for their parent and affiliated undertakings
REMIT disclosure requirements apply to the business and facilities, the latter
across the value chain for power, natural gas and LNG
REMIT does not know any minimum tresholds from which the disclosure
requirement for facilities apply (except 600 GWh indirectly)
EEX Transparency Platform provides a technology for cross-commodity, crossvalue chain, cross-market publications and cross-regulation compliance
Market participants are invited to benefit from comprehensive compliance
services offering of the EEX Group
− REMIT disclosure and data reporting (1227/2011)
− ENTSO-E data reporting (543/2013)
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Contact:
Dr. Marcus Mittendorf
Head of Market Information Services
T +49 341 2156 277
F +49 341 2156 289
[email protected]
[email protected]
Many thanks for your attention
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