Having performed technical control and checking of the fulfillment of certain technical criteria for system and system operation, the ENTSO-E System Operation Committee concluded that CGES performs its operational activities during emergencies fully in compliance with 20 standards out of the total 21, and that the application of the only one standard remaining is not fully compliant but sufficiently compliant with the related procedures within the European Union.
Compliance Monitoring Program (CMP) is the program of ENTSO-E Association (European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity established by EU Regulation 714/2009) that permanently assesses compliance with the standards of the Association via the annual process of self-assessment and the annual process of mandatory on-site compliance audit, which is performed periodically and in the randomly selected transmission system operators.
Sub-Group Compliance Monitoring & Enforcement (SG CME) is in charge of performing above-mentioned two processes. It is worth noting that the year 2016 is the 7th year of conducting mandatory compliance audits and that SG CME performed 4 voluntary compliance audits in 2008-2009 and 43 mandatory audits in 2010-2016.
The ENTSO-E RGCE (Regional Group Continental Europe) member CGES was chosen for the on-site Compliance Audit in 2016 which was conducted on 10 and 11 May 2016 at CGES premises of National Dispatching Centre. During the onsite audit, the group had the opportunity of visiting the National Dispatching Centre (NDC) and Reserve Dispatching Centre (RDC), as well as inspecting available equipment, systems and installations. The on-site audit focused on resilience of the operation activities during emergencies, as well as the system defence plan and system restoration plan.
The Committee audited 21 standards and concluded that CGES is fully compliant with 20 audited standards. In one case, the Committee concluded that CGES is not fully compliant but sufficiently compliant with the application of standards.
Besides the highest rating of the very compliance, the Committee emphasized that the Company was well prepared for the audit. Documents considered as evidence were highly praised and were available during the audit, and requests for additional information by members of the Committee were promptly addressed by CGES.