Article 3.10 of Law 24/2013 of 26 December of the Electricity Sector establishes, among the powers that correspond to the General Administration of the State, to regulate the terms in which the management is to be carried out economic and technical system of the Electrical System, approving the market rules and the necessary instrumental and technical operating procedures.

For its part, Article 31 of the Royal Decree 2019/1997 of 26 December, for which the electricity production market is organized and regulated, establishes that the system operator and the National Energy Commission, National Commission of the Markets and the Competition, may propose for approval by the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Commerce, current Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism, the procedures of operation of technical character and necessary instruments to perform the proper technical management of the system, who will solve prior to the report of the Commission.

Royal Decree 1110/2007, of 24 August, approving the unified regulation of points of measurement of the electrical system, regulates the operating conditions of the system of measures of the national electricity system, of the the equipment and its characteristics, in order to ensure the correct technical management of the electrical system and to obtain the data required for the liquidation of the energy and associated services, as well as for the calculation of the invoicing of access and supply tariffs, in application of the economic regime of the activities of such a system.

Royal Decree 1110/2007, of August 24, contemplated in its final disposition third the presentation to the then Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Commerce by the system operator of the new procedures operation of the system or the modification of existing ones that is necessary for the adequacy of the Electrical Measures System to the provisions of the new regulation.

In this way, the Resolution of 16 November 2009, of the Secretariat of State of Energy, approved the procedures of operation of the system 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, 10.7, 10.8 and 10.11 for its adaptation to the new electrical regulations.

Subsequently, Royal Decree 216/2014 of 28 March 2014 establishing the methodology for calculating the voluntary prices for the small consumer of electrical energy and its legal system of procurement determines in (a) its supplementary provision (s) that the proposals for technical and instrumental procedures submitted by the system operator shall be accompanied by a report of the representatives of all the subjects of the system defined in Article 6 of Law 24/2013 of 26 December of the Electrical Sector.

The purpose of this resolution is the approval of two new operating procedures and the modification of four existing procedures for their adaptation to the provisions of Royal Decree 216/2014 of 28 March 2014, Article 6 of which determines that in the case of supplies that have measuring equipment with telematic and telemanagement capacity, and effectively integrated into the corresponding systems, the billing will be carried out considering the time values of consumption made available or referred to by the person in charge of the reading.

The fifth additional provision of the aforementioned Royal Decree 216/2014, of 28 March, states that, by resolution of the Secretary of State of Energy, the procedure in which the verification, validation and closure is regulated shall be established the data from the measurement equipment connected to the telemanagement system, as well as the protocols for the exchange of information, security and confidentiality between the agents for the purposes of invoicing and settlement of the energy. To these effects, the National Commission of the Markets and the Competition is urged to send to the Secretariat of State of Energy, within the maximum period of two months from the entry into force of the royal decree, a proposal of the aforementioned procedures as well as any other provision which may be necessary for the purposes of managing the time-scale of the measurement equipment connected to the telemanagement system.

On the basis of the above, the Regulatory Supervisory Board of the National Commission on Markets and Competition, at its meeting on 29 May 2014, approved the " Proposal for procedures for verification, validation and the closure of the data coming from the measurement equipment connected to the telemanagement system, and the protocols for the exchange of information for the purposes of billing and the liquidation of the energy ", which was forwarded to the Secretariat of State Energy.

For its part, Red Electrica de España, S.A., as Operator of the System, referred to the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism, dated August 4, 2014, proposed approval of modification of the following procedures operation:

P. O. 10.4 "Concentrators of electrical measures and communications systems".

P. O. 10.5 "Calculation of the best energy value at the border points and power closures of the electrical measurement information system".

P. O. 10.6 "Measurement Point Aggregation".

P. O. 10.11 "Treatment and exchange of information between System Operator, reading managers, marketers and other agents".

The above proposals were forwarded on 5 September 2014 to the National Commission on Markets and Competition, together with the procedures approved by that Commission on 29 May 2014, for their joint assessment and issue of the relevant report in accordance with the provisions of Article 5.2 and the transitional provision of Law No 3/2013 of 4 June of the establishment of the National Commission on Markets and Competition, and having regard to the provisions of the Article 31 of Royal Decree 2019/1997 of 26 December 1997 on the organisation and regulation of the market Electrical energy production.

On 13 November 2014 the Regulatory Supervisory Board of the National Markets and Competition Commission agreed to issue the " Report on the proposed amendment of the operating procedures 10.4, 10.5, 10.6 and 10.11 and the proposal for procedures for checking, validating, closing and making available data from the measurement equipment connected to the telemanagement system. "

Likewise, it was stated in the aforementioned trade dated 5 September 2014 that, taking into account that these procedures collect some aspects that could be related to the State's metrological control, it was requested which, for the processing of the hearing, was included in the Spanish Metrology Centre.

View Law 24/2013 of 26 December of the Electrical Sector and Article 31 of Royal Decree 2019/1997 of 26 December on the organisation and regulation of the electricity production market and the Royal Decree 1110/2007, of 24 August, approving the Unified Regulation of Measurement Points of the Electrical System;

View the proposal made by the System Operator to modify operation procedures 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, and 10.11;

View the proposal made by the CNMC of procedures for the verification, validation and closure of data from the measurement equipment connected to the telemanagement system, and on the protocols for the exchange of information for the purpose of energy billing and settlement;

Having regard to the Report of 13 November 2014 of the CNMC in which it jointly values both proposals,

This Secretary of State resolves:

First. Approval of procedures for the operation of the electrical system.

The following electrical system operation procedures are approved:

a) P.O. 10.4 "Power measurement concentrators and communications systems".

b) P.O. 10.5 "Calculation of the best energy value at the border points and power closures of the electrical measurement information system."

c) P.O. 10.6 "Measurement Point Aggregation".

d) P.O. 10.11 "Treatment and exchange of information between System Operator, reading managers, marketers and other agents".

e) P.O. 10.12 "Procedure for the verification, validation and calculation of the best energy value of the data from the type 5 measuring equipment effectively integrated into the telemanagement system".

(f) P.O. 10.13 " Procedure by which distributors exchange information with electrical energy traders, and make data from equipment available to marketers and consumers of type 5 measure effectively integrated into the telemanagement system ".

These procedures are inserted below.

Second. Measure equipment effectively integrated.

It is understood that a team is effectively integrated into the telemanagement system when the equipment meets the minimum functional specifications of the telemanagement systems set out in Article 9.8 of the Regulation. a unified measure of measure approved by Royal Decree 1110/2007 of 24 August, and have the capacity to read the records of active energy in a remote way through this system.

Third. Information exchange files.

Within 7 working days of this resolution, the National Markets and Competition Commission will publish on its website the formats of the information exchange files defined in the Third paragraph of P.O. 10.13, as well as the floujams and procedures associated with such files.

Information regarding such files and their associated procedures should be kept up to date on their website.

Fourth. Applicability.

1. From 1 July 2015, the following shall apply:

(a) The P.O. 10.12. Notwithstanding the foregoing, until 1 October 2015 the process of capturing the time curve by the telemanagement systems as referred to in paragraph 6 of the said P.O. 10.12 shall be initiated at the latest on the third day before the date of entry into the end one month from the last record of the consumed consumption.

(b) The making available by distributors to the marketers of CCH_FACT of which they have the formats provided for in P. O 10.13.

c) The use, if any, of the F5D information exchange file as defined in paragraph 3.1.b) of P.O. 10.13.

(d) Section 3.2 of P.O. 10.13 on "Distributor's communication to the marketer on the status of consumer measurement equipment connected to their networks".

e) Paragraph 3.3.1 "is made available to CCH_FACT" of P.O. 10.13.

(f) Section 3.3.2 "Channels and communication protocols" of P.O. 10.13, with the exception of the use of the same FTP server for information to be made available to consumers with type 5 equipment and for consumers with measuring equipment type 1, 2 and 3.

2. From 1 October 2015, the traders referred to in paragraph 2.1 of the P.O.10.13 shall invoice with the data from the CCH_FACT time load curve provided that the initial date of the billing period is later than the date of the August 31, 2015.

Prior to the agreement between the distributor and the marketer, before 1 October 2015 the marketer may invoice with the data from the time load curve, complying with the procedures of the Operation 10.12 and 10.13. In this case, the distributor shall have no obligation to use the data from the CCH_FACT for the purpose of sending the Data System Operator necessary to liquidate the energy on the market up to the date provided for in paragraph 1. following this resolution.

3. The system operator shall publish on its website the timetable for the implementation of the different paragraphs of the operating procedures 10.4, 10.5, 10.6 and 10.11. This timetable shall be in accordance with this paragraph.

For Client Type 5 Borders with Time Measure:

(a) The distributor shall send to the System Operator for the settlement of the energy on the market the aggregated hourly measure obtained from CCH_FACT, as defined in the procedure of operation 10.12, for all supplies with invoices issued since 1 October 2015 and with a start date of consumption after 31 August 2015.

(b) The operating procedures of system 10.4, 10.5, 10.6 and 10.11 shall apply as the timetable for the system of measures laid down in those procedures for the measures referred to in the paragraph is complied with. previous.

Those amendments to the operating procedures that are not related to type 5 borders of customers with an hourly measure shall apply from 1 October 2015.

However the above:

a) The sending of measures from the secondary concentrators to the main hub through the channel and communication protocol defined in the PO 10.11, by the border of type 5 clients according to the Paragraph 4.1 of P. O 10.4 shall apply to the consumption of such frontier points by 31 December 2015, but may nevertheless be sent on a voluntary basis from 1 July 2015.

b) From 1 July and until 31 December 2015, the system operator will have access to the same servers enabled to make CCH_FACT available to marketers, with the same channel and the same communication protocol, as defined in P.O. 10.13.

4. The following paragraphs of P.O. 10.13 shall also apply from 1 October 2015:

(a) Paragraph 3.3.4 on updates to the CCH_FACT and the use, if any, of the RF5D file as defined in paragraph 3.1.b).

(b) Paragraph 3.4 "Puesta at the disposal of the distributor to the marketer of the CCH_VAL" and the use, where appropriate, of the P5D file as defined in paragraph 3.1.b).

(c) Paragraph 4 "Puesta at the disposal of the distributor to the consumer of the time load curve".

d) The use, if any, of the CCH_CONS file, as defined in 3.1.b).

5. Before 1 January 2016 it shall be applicable:

(a) The use of the information exchange files referred to in paragraph 3.1.a) of P.O. 10.13, without prejudice to the use of the files necessary for the application of the preceding paragraphs.

(b) The use of the same FTP server for the making available of CCH_FACT marketers for consumers with type 5 measurement equipment and for consumer information with type 1 measuring equipment, 2 and 3, as provided for in paragraph 3.3.2 of P.O. 10.13.

Fifth. Referral of information.

1. Within seven days of the termination of this resolution, the distributor shall send to the marketer a listing of all the supplies connected to the distributor's network of equipment which are effectively available to the distributor. integrated in the telemanagement system, indicating the criterion followed by the distributor until that time to communicate this information in the files D1. This listing will be sent in a flat type format and will contain a single field that will be up to the CUPS.

2. On July 1, 2015 the distributor will send an updated list in flat format to the marketer and to the National Commission of the Markets and the Competition, of all the supplies with contract in force connected to the network of the distributor that (i) have measuring equipment effectively integrated into the telemanagement system.

The Directorate General for Energy Policy and Mines of the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism will have access at any time to such information, which must be provided by the National Markets Commission and the Competence.

3. The National Markets and Competition Commission may request the information it deems appropriate to the subjects in accordance with the format and within the time limits it determines. Among other aspects, until 1 January 2020, distributors will send the following information on a quarterly basis to the Commission:

a) Report specifying the number of supplies for which the time load curves have been made available, disaggregating such data by access toll and marketing.

b) Information about the number of estimated and actual hours published. In this case, reference should be made to the method of obtaining the measure in accordance with the table in paragraph 6 of the P.O. 10.12 ' Procedure for the verification, validation and calculation of the best energy value of the data from the the type 5 measuring equipment effectively integrated into the telemanagement system ".

For these purposes, the CNMC shall publish in its electronic headquarters the format to which the information shall be transmitted.

4. The National Markets and Competition Commission shall send to the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism a half-yearly report on the basis of the information it receives, for the purposes of monitoring and implementing the provisions of this resolution and in the operating procedures that are approved.

Sixth. Access to the Time Load curves of the Provisioning Point Information System.

As of 1 January 2016, distributors will make available to the System of Information Points of Supply regulated in Article 7 of Royal Decree 1435/2002 of 27 December, which regulates the the basic conditions of the contracts for the acquisition of energy and access to the networks at low voltage, the information set out in that article. Until that date, distributors shall make available to them the measures of consumption discriminated against for periods and months.

The time load curves that are made available in the Supply Point Information System will match the CCH_FACT that the distributors have made available to the marketers for the consumers to whom such information corresponds.

Seventh. Monthly billing of supplies that have measuring equipment with telemetry and telemanagement capacity that are not effectively integrated into the corresponding systems.

Supplies that at the time the present resolution takes effect have measuring equipment capable of telematic and telemanagement that are not effectively integrated into the corresponding systems according to the definition given in the second paragraph and whose reading and invoicing are being carried out on a monthly basis, in accordance with the provisions of Article 2.1 of Royal Decree 1718/2012 of 28 December laying down the procedure to perform the reading and billing of low voltage power supplies with power contracted not more than 15 kW, may continue to be invoiced on a monthly basis, unless otherwise stated by the consumer.

Eighth. Effectiveness.

This resolution shall take effect on the day following that of its publication in the "Official State Gazette".

Ninth. Loss of effects.

1. From the date on which the amendments to the relevant operating procedures approved by this resolution are applicable, the following procedures for the operation of the system approved by Resolution shall be without effect. of 16 November 2009, of the Secretary of State for Energy:

P. O. 10.4 "Concentrators of electrical measures and communications systems".

P. O. 10.5 "Calculation of the best energy value at the border points and power closures of the electrical measurement information system".

P. O. 10.6 "Measurement Point Aggregation".

P. O. 10.11 "Treatment and exchange of information between system operators, read managers, marketers and other agents".

2. As from the date on which this resolution takes effect, the resolution of 29 April 2010, of the Secretary of State for Energy, authorising the operator of the system to carry out an exceptional procedure, is without effect Closing and estimating customer measures.

Madrid, June 2, 2015. -Secretary of State for Energy, Alberto Nadal Belda.

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