Consultations/Rules amendments

Following the previous DCO no. 03/2015 published on 29 July 2015, with this document Gestore dei mercati energetici S.p.A. (hereinafter referred to as GME) submits to consultation a new proposal for the operation model of the Platform for exchange of liquid petroleum products for transport (P-OIL) as well as the relevant proposed rules to the stakeholder consultation as per Art. 22, para. 1 of Legislative Decree 249/2012.
The start of a further consultative process on the proposed operation of the P-OIL was necessary in view of the changes that in the meantime have been made with respect to the initial proposal of the platform operating model shown in the previous consultation no. 03/2015.
In particular, after the previous consultative process, some additional insights that determined the need to introduce certain amendments to the market model initially assumed, were carried out together with the related institutions as well as with the Competition Authority (hereinafter referred to as AGCM).

Parties concerned must submit, in writing, their comments to GME - Institutional Relations and Communication, no later than 20 May 2016, term of this consultation by one of the following ways:

• e-mail: info@mercatoelettrico.org
• fax: +39 06 8012 4524
• mail: Gestore dei mercati energetici S.p.A.
          Viale Maresciallo Pilsudski, 122 - 124
          00197 – Rome - Italy          

      Parties wishing to safeguard the confidentiality or secrecy, in whole or in part, of the documentation submitted are required to specify which parts of their documents shall be treated as confidential.

Download DCO 04/2016

This consultation document contains, respectively, the proposed Rules of the Mineral-Oil Logistics Platform (P-LOGISTICS) as set forth in Art. 21, paragraph 1, of Legislative Decree no. 249 dated December 31, 2012 (Legislative Decree no. 249/2012) and the Platform for exchange of liquid petroleum products for transport (P-OIL) ) as set forth in Art. 22, paragraph 1, of Legislative Decree no. 249/2012.

This consultative process is initiated by GME in implementation of the provisions referred to in Article 3, paragraph 1, of Ministerial Decree no. 16618 on the establishment of the Mineral-Oil Logistics Platform and in Article 3, paragraph 1, of Ministerial Decree no. 18817 on the establishment of the Fuels Platform, implemented by the Ministry of Economic Development, under the provisions of Legislative Decree no. 249/2012, and containing general principles that Gestore dei mercati energetici S.p.A. (GME) must follow while preparing proposals for the operation rules of the P-LOGISTICS and P-OIL.

Together with the aforementioned proposals for rules, GME allows stakeholder consulting the Form for the data collection on monthly capacity of storage and transit of mineral oils, whose approval will be done by the Minister of Economic Development, pursuant to Article 21, paragraph 3, of Legislative Decree no. 249/2012, with the same decree approving the rules of operation of the P-LOGISTICS.

GME is organizing in Rome on September 14 at “Sala Anfiteatro”, Auditorium Via Veneto (Via Veneto, 89), a meeting addressed to the participants concerned aimed at showing the contents of the DCO in question.

Participation is free and requires registration by filling out the online form.

During the consultation period, which will end on September 30, the participants concerned will be able to test, through blank tests, the features of the P-LOGISTICS that will be shown during the meeting. These blank tests will be carried out starting from Tuesday, September 15 until Thursday, September 30, from 10 am to 3 pm. The platform for the conduct of the tests will be reached at the following address: https://provelogistica.ipex.it from September 1.

P-LOGISTICS platform for tests has already been automatically open to all users of the PDC-OIL platform and, therefore, these users will participate in the tests without having to make any additional registration.
New registrations for participation in the blank tests, however, can be requested by completing the form available at the following address:
https://provelogistica.ipex.it/Public/InserimentoDati.

Any changes relating to the conduct of the tests will be promptly notified.

For any support and/or assistance on the tests and/or to request the validation of registration requests sent, it is available the following email:
plogistica@mercatoelettrico.org.

For any support and/or assistance on the IT issues related to the operation of the platform and to report any problems or failures, GMS made available the e-mail informatica@mercatoelettrico.org.

Please note that IT development of the Platform for exchange of liquid petroleum products for transport (P-OIL) is currently underway.

Those wishing to safeguard the confidentiality or secrecy, in whole or in part, of the documents sent are required to indicate which parts of their documents shall be treated as confidential.

Download DCO 3/2015

This consultation document that GME has prepared is a first survey on the creation of the platform for trading liquid oil products to be used for transport purposes. The document is chiefly aimed at gathering comments and inputs from interested parties about the possible models of organisation and operation of the above-mentioned platform.

Interested parties should send in their comments in writing to GME - “Legale e Regolazione” (Legal & Regulatory Office) – by 6 June 2013 at the latest (end date of the consultation) in one of the following ways:

• by e-mail to: info@mercatoelettrico.org
• by fax to:   +39-06-80124524
• by mail to:  Gestore dei mercati energetici S.p.A.
  Largo Giuseppe Tartini, 3-4
  00198 – Rome - Italy