The concept for the "organised market place" (OMP) or "organised market" emerged as a key element of the REMIT (Regulation (EU) No 1227/2011 on wholesale energy market integrity and transparency) compliance system. 

                       
                 
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In practical terms there is no escape from establishing the exact meaning and coverage of this term. There are at least 6 important aspects where the determining whether given trading venue is classified as the "organised market place" within the REMIT sense will play a major role.

 

1. Differentiation between the non-standard and standard contracts

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Standard contract under REMIT means a contract concerning a wholesale energy product admitted to trading at an organised market place, irrespective of whether or not the transaction actually takes place on that market place ("non-standard contract" means a contract concerning any wholesale energy product "that is not a standard contract").

 

2. Table 1 / Table 2 reporting format

 

Distinction between the non-standard and standard contracts, in turn, influences on the transactions and orders reporting formats (respectively: Table 2 or Table 1 of the Annex to the Commission Implementing Regulation No 1348/2014 on data reporting implementing Article 8(2) and Article 8(6) of Regulation (EU) No 1227/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council on wholesale energy market integrity and transparency)).

 

3. Final customers contracts

 

Implications of the organised market's definition, as designed by REMIT, are broader than the above two elements. Among major considerations in this regard is also the fact that all contracts traded at organised market places are reportable records of transactions of wholesale energy products and should be reported in line with Article 8 (1) of REMIT and with the rules defined in Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1348/2014. From this principle there are, practically, no exceptions, hence, even final customers' contracts traded at organised market places should be reported to the European energy regulator (the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators - ACER) - irrespective of the 600 GWh/year consumption threshold.

The mere implication of the above rule is the aforementioned final customers are required to register in the European register of energy market participants in line with Article 9(1) of REMIT.

 

4. Orders' reporting

 

Another significant point regarding the role of organised markets in the REMIT compliance is the scope of orders to trade reporting. In principle, REMIT reporting requirement includes transactions as well as orders to trade (the feature differentiatig REMIT from EMIR reporting, where orders are not reportable).

In terms of REMIT obligation with respect to of trade data, orders to trade have to be reported only:
(i) when the order was placed on an organised market place or
(ii) in connection with proceedings on primary explicit capacity allocation.

There were initially some ambiguities regarding this issue, but ACER in its Q&As on REMIT clarified this unequivocally. ACER referred in that regard to Article 6 of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1348/2014, which defines the reporting of orders to trade explicitly in paragraph 1 (for wholesale energy products placed at organised market places) and paragraph 2 (for primary explicit capacity allocations placed at allocation platforms).

Beyond that, ACER underlines, there is no obligation to report orders to trade (see e.g. Article 6(3) of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1348/2014 for activities outside an organised market place). Giving reasons to the above opinion ACER also pointed to Recital 5 of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1348/2014, which clarifies the importance of monitoring orders to trade for an effective market monitoring, but refers exclusively to those orders placed at organised markets.

The practical consideration is, to establish whether a given order to trade in the energy market is reportable under REMIT, in the first place there is a need to check if the order was placed on an organised market place in the REMIT sense.

 

5. Reporting burden

 

Organised market places are mandated with the reporting obligation for transactions executed thereon, which arrangement substantially relieves their members or participants from REMIT reporting duties.

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Questions and Answers on REMIT, Question II.4.55

In line with Article 6(1) of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1348/2014, market participants shall report details of wholesale energy products executed at an organised market place (the 'OMP') [...] to the Agency through the OMP concerned. I am a market participant and have a data reporting agreement with the OMP concerned. The OMP concerned has delegated data reporting to a third-party RRM. Is the data reporting agreement with the OMP sufficient in terms of my REMIT transaction reporting obligations?

Article 6(1) of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1348/2014 states that it is the concerned OMP that shall offer a data reporting agreement to the market participant requesting this to the OMP. There is no mention of additional obligations to market participants in this respect.

Regarding the obligation to take reasonable steps to verify the completeness, accuracy and timeliness of the data under Article 11(2) of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1348/2014, if the OMP concerned selects a third-party RRM and thereby outsources the service for market participants of data reporting according to Article 6(1) of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1348/2014, it is the OMP concerned that will have to take reasonable steps to verify the completeness, accuracy and timeliness of the data which they submit through third party RRMs. The market participant would be relieved from taking reasonable steps to verify the completeness, accuracy and timeliness of the data to the minimum necessary.

The Agency points out that rights and obligations of market participant and the OMP concerned related to data reporting should be defined in a data reporting agreement between them. In addition, it is the Agency's understanding that the OMP concerned and its third party RRM have a separate data reporting agreement specifying their responsibilities for the completeness, accuracy and timely submission of data to the Agency.

 

In line with Article 6(1) of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1348/2014, the reporting of details of wholesale energy products executed at an organised market place should be carried out by the organised market place concerned, or through trade matching systems or trade reporting systems. The organised market place concerned has to offer a data reporting agreement if requested by market participants. Nevertheless, there is no obligation for the organised market place itself to become a Registered Reporting Mechanism (an RRM).

ACER confirmed already that the organised market place can delegate the reporting of the data to a third-party (which has to be an RRM). In this case Article 11(2) of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1348/2014 applies. However, in line with Article 6(1) of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1348/2014, the organised market place is allowed to delegate data reporting only to another organised market, a trade matching or a trade reporting mechanism.

In the Q&As on REMIT ACER also presented its view on the situation when the organised market place does not offer a data reporting agreement at the request of the market participant. According to ACER, if the OMP does not offer a data reporting agreement or is not registered as an RRM, and therefore cannot offer a data reporting agreement, the OMP will have to nominate a third party RRM and will have to fulfil its obligation to offer a data reporting agreement through the nominated third party RRM. The nominated third party RRM would offer a data reporting agreement to market participants on behalf of the OMP.

 

6. Reporting start date

 

Last but not least, pursuant to Article 6(1) of the said Commission Implementing Regulation No 1348/2014 the determination that the contract is "executed at an organised market place" prescribes the reporting start date 7 October 2015 and not, as for majority of other contracts, 7 April 2016.

 

Definition

 

After establishing the importance of the problem of the proper identification of OMPs the time comes up to refer to the respective definitions. They are stipulated in Article 2(4) of the Commission Implementing Regulation 1348/2014.

Pursuant to the said provision, "organised market place" or "organised market" mean:

a) a multilateral system, which brings together or facilitates the bringing together of multiple third party buying and selling interests in wholesale energy products in a way that results in a contract,

b) any other system or facility in which multiple third-party buying and selling interests in wholesale energy products are able to interact in a way that results in a contract.

Hence, it is rather spacious category, inclusive, inter alia, of:

Newly created by MiFID II concepts like organised trading facilities (OTFs) and, substantially modified, multilateral trading facilities (MTFs) and systematic internalisers, are equally covered.

The question may arise why already well established MiFID definitions are not expressly used in the legislation in this context (for the OMP delineation). Such proposition was even submitted by market participants to the ACER, however, the regulatory stance was as follows:

“The proposal has not been accepted for the upcoming version of the TRUM Annex II, as it would induce a modification of the overall structure of the document that would require an additional consultation with all stakeholders.

Furthermore, please note that the differentiation between different types of OMPs arises from different legal consequences related to the data reporting applicable to OMPs (e.g. Article 7(3) of the REMIT Implementing Regulation). In any case, there is flexibility for exchanges and brokers to use each other’s Annex II examples to undertake reporting” (see ACER Document of 30 April 2021 Outcome of the consultation of relevant parties on the Annex II to the TRUM v. 4.0 and v. 4.1). Hence, it seems that the ACER’s position is not definitive and the approach regarding the MiFID’s terminology use in this regard may evolve over time.

 

ACER's understanding of the term "organised market place"

 

Pursuant to ACER, a broker, as a person or a firm that arranges transactions between a buyer and a seller for a commission when the deal is executed, is not necessarily an OMP. Broker platforms do not automatically become OMPs, but it is only possible if they fulfil the OMP criteria stipulated in Article 2(4) of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1348/2014 (ACER's Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) on REMIT transactions reporting (General questions, Question 1.1.3, as of 21 November 2015)).

The June 2020 edition of the ACER's Trade Reporting User Manual (TRUM) underlines one more important question, i.e. that brokers (that are organised market places rather than executing brokers) are not market participants and should not appear as a counterparty. The said June 2020 edition of the TRUM elaborates in this regard on the difference between a broker as an OMP and executing broker as follows (p. 18): 

"The Agency considers a broker a natural or legal person that arranges transactions between a buyer and a seller for a commission when the trade is executed. This is not necessarily an OMP. Broker platforms are mentioned as examples of OMPs, but this does not mean that all brokers automatically have to be considered OMPs. This will only be the case if they fulfil the OMP criteria stipulated in Article 2(4) of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1348/2014.

If a market participant places an order on an OMP through a broker (usually an executing broker) and this particular broker is the counterparty to the transaction, then the executing broker is a REMIT market participant and has reporting obligations for all its trades and orders to trade placed on the exchange, including those that the broker gives up.

An executing broker is a natural or legal person that executes transactions on an OMP on behalf of its clients. Since an executing broker places an order and executes it without bringing together “multiple third party” buying and selling side, the executing broker would not be considered an OMP.

In some circumstances, a broker (when considered a REMIT OMP) may offer the service of executing broker to their clients. The firm is providing two different services: one as OMP and one as executing broker. For the executing broker business the firm will be considered a REMIT market participant (please see Annex III to the TRUM available on the REMIT portal). This firm should register its executing broker business (and only that) as market participant with the relevant National Regulatory Authority.

Brokers (that are organised market places rather than executing brokers) are not market participants and should not appear as a counterparty."

Moreover, according to the TRUM, the notion of "multiple third party" plays a key role in determining what constitutes an OMP; a many-to-many trading possibility must exist in order to consider it an organised market place. In the Agency's view, multilateral systems that procure or sell energy on behalf of TSOs only for balancing purposes should not be considered organised market places if those systems act solely on behalf of the TSOs. Moreover, ACER considers such a system facilitates a one-to-many trading opportunity at each imbalance period, e.g. in an electricity market, per each half hour/hour balancing period the system procures or sells energy for the TSOs. However, if the multilateral system brings together or facilitates the bringing together of "multiple third parties" procuring and selling energy, the system facilitates a many-to-many trading opportunity, e.g. if participants can trade with each other and the TSO in a within day gas market to adjust their positions, that system should be considered an organised market place.

Likewise, if the multilateral system brings together or facilitates the bringing together of "multiple third party" buying and selling of capacity, e.g. on a capacity secondary market, that system should be considered an organised market place if that system allows many-to-many trading.

 

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Local Flexibility Products

 

FAQs on REMIT transaction reporting, 16th edition, 13 March 2024

 

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Our Exchange plans to offer the possibility to trade Local Flexibility Products within the EU. Such products are designed to solve local congestions on the grid of DSOs or the TSO through the trading of electricity. Local Flexibility Products are offered on markets characterised by a single buyer, that is the System Operator, representing the interests of DSOs and the TSO and multiple sellers. Local Flexibility Products can be traded as part of auction or continuous trading within the day-ahead or intraday timeframe. When operating a flexibility market, precise asset location information is necessary for the System Operator to manage congestion and frequency.

We would like to clarify whether the product concerning such congestion management (local flexibility) is subject to REMIT reporting requirements. Additionally, we are seeking guidance on ACER's expectations regarding the reporting of transaction data for trading activities related to congestion management.

 

Answer

It is the Agency’s understanding that in case of Local Flexibility Products the platform offered by the Exchange is used by, on one side, the TSO/DSOs (via the System Operator) to access the liquidity of the Exchange to coordinate their congestion management solutions, and, on the other side, by the Exchange members. Despite the presence of an aggregator (i.e. the System Operator) with the function to reduce congestion in the electricity grid, this arrangement represents the bringing together of multiple third-party buying and selling interests in wholesale energy products in a way that results in a contract.

Therefore, both orders and trades should be reported to ACER in accordance with Article 3(1)(i) and (ii) of REMIT Implementing Regulation. The contracts related to these new products are considered as standard contracts traded on an OMP and, thus, shall be listed in ACER’s List of Standard Contracts.

When reporting Local Flexibility Products under REMIT, the following transaction reporting requirements shall be followed with regards to specific data fields, also with the purpose to correctly flag these transactions as related to products for congestion management:

• Since the contracts related to Local Flexibility Products are considered as standard contracts traded on an OMP, they shall be reported using Table 1 of the Annex to REMIT Implementing Regulation.

• Both Data Field (21) Contract ID and Data Field (22) Contract name shall start with the prefix “CM_”, followed by the Contract ID and Name, respectively, assigned by the OMP. The prefix ‘CM’ shall stand for ‘Congestion Management’.

• Data Field (27) Organised market place ID/OTC: This field identifies the organised market place on which the order was placed, and the trade was concluded related to the Local Flexibility Product.

• The Extra field available in the REMITTable1 electronic format shall be used to report the locational information by reporting the respective EAN code as the unique identification number that links the respective connection point to a specific user/address. It will represent the required locational information in the Extra field. For example, if the EAN code is 123456789012345678, it is to be reported as follows: REMITTable1_V3:

<Extra>EAN==123456789012345678</Extra>

 

List of Organised Market Places

 

The List of Organised Market Places has the form the electronic database established and mainained by the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (the ACERs' List of Organised Market Places (REMIT Portal).

 

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Article 3(2) of the REMIT Implementing Regulation

In order to facilitate reporting, the Agency shall draw up and publish a public list of organised market places upon entry into force of this regulation. The Agency shall update that list in a timely manner.

  

The legal base for establishing the List of Organised Market Places represents Article 3(2) of the above-mentioned Commission Implementing Regulation No 1348/2014.Article 6(1) of the above Regulation prescribes the organised markets to be the reporting channels for transactions and orders in wholesale energy products. The said provision stipulates:

"Market participants shall report details of wholesale energy products executed at organised market places including matched and unmatched orders to the ACER through the organised market place concerned, or through trade matching or trade reporting systems.

The organised market place where the wholesale energy product was executed or theorder was placed shall at the request of the market participant offer a data reporting agreement".

The process for establishing the list of organised market places was preceded by public consultations.

Public consultations (PC_2014_R_07) run in the period from 14 November 2014 to 11 December 2014 and included:

REMIT Comitology Committee voted on the draft for the above REMIT Implementing Act on 3 October 2014.

In the REMIT compliance system the periodically-updated List of Organised Market Places is intended, among others, to enable market participants and other stakeholders to identify such trading platforms as reporting channel for transaction reporting, including the reporting of orders to trade, in the process of data collection under Article 6(1) of the REMIT Implementing Regulation. Market participants have to report details of wholesale energy products executed at organised market places, including matched and unmatched orders, to the ACER through the organised market places concerned, or through trade matching or trade reporting systems (RRMs). According to the ACER’ presentation (2nd Energy Market Integrity and Transparency Forum, Ljubljana, 6 and 7 September 2018) there were 73 OMPs in the EU at the time of the said document. The ACER OMPs' list as visited on 1 September 2020 evidenced 83 OMPs, mostly energy exchanges and broker platforms.

REMIT Quarterly Q1/2021 enumerates several changes to the OMP list that were introduced in 2020: 

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Organised market places - Minutes from Roundtable meetings with the ACER

  • the list contained 84 OMP listings in January 2020, but this number decreased to 78 OMPs by January 2021;
  • four OMPs were completely removed from the list (Kaasupörssi Oy, LAGIE S.A., Powernext non-MTF and Powernext Spot & Regulated Market); 
  • three OMPs merged their market segments (TP ICAP, Polish Power Exchange and Tullet Prebon);
  • two brand new listings were added (ARRACO Ireland Limited and Bulgarian Energy Trading Platform AD);
  • several OMPs modified their OMP codes for transaction reporting.

Further developments as regards the OMP listings in 2021. It follows from the minutes of 16 November 2021 from 2021 Joint roundtable meeting of the ACER with AEMPs, OMPs and RRMs (Reference: RT-AEMP-OMP-RRM-2021) that the ACER does not plan “to amend the list of OMPs with the inclusion of booking platforms, but that the respective guidance might be improved if deemed necessary”.

ACER encourages OMPs to request the delisting of the markets that they previously operated and only use their ‘newly’ established markets going forward. The list facilitates reporting based on the REMIT, as it enables all market participants to identify relevant organised market places as reporting channels for transaction reporting. With a view to delivering a consistent and updated version of the List of Organised Market Places, ACER urges OMPs to promptly submit any new/updated information regarding organised market place identifiers via the new form before reporting transactions or in case of any change. The ACER underlines (REMIT Quarterly, Issue No. 27 /Q4 2021) that transaction reports of standard contracts referencing a non-existing organised market place identifier are rejected by ACER’s data collection system (ARIS).

 

Procedure for OMP listing

 

As regards new entities the ACER has advised that the candidates should get in touch with the Agency well in advance before taking up business.

The steps to be taken by the new OMP in order to be listed in the Agency's list of OMPs are as follows:

- contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. well in advance of the intended start date of the OMP operation;

- read through the information on ACER's REMIT portal;

- fill out the Agency's OMP registration form and provide at least one of the following codes which are relevant for transaction reporting: Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) code, Market Identifier Code (MIC); 

- provide a list of standard contracts admitted to be traded on the OMP;

- provide a third party Registered Reporting Mechanism (RRM), which reports transactions on your behalf or apply to become an RRM yourself (ACER adds that the procedure to become an RRM takes at least three months, but can also take up to six months). 

In the REMIT Quarterly Issue No. 25 /Q2 2021 the ACER describes its current practice as regards the listing an OMP on the OMPs List. ACER’s strategy in this respect is closely linked to the responsibility of the reporting parties to report data under Article 8 of REMIT. The ACER observes, if an OMP is not listed, the trades and orders arranged by the OMP cannot be reported accurately, as market participants will either completely forgo their obligation to report or incorrectly populate the REMIT Implementing Regulation based field ‘OMP ID’ (e.g. XBIL). Hence, “ACER welcomes any OMPs that want to become listed in order to facilitate the compliance of their clients with REMIT, but it does not actively solicit OMPs to get listed, unless alerted by market participants or RRMs. In such cases, ACER proactively approaches the venues to clarify the eligibility”.

 

Interrelations between the List of Organised Market Places and the List of Standard Contracts

 

The List of Organised Market Places enables these platforms to submit identifying reference data for each wholesale energy product they admit to trading to the ACER in order to assist the Agency to comply with its obligation to draw up and maintain a public List of Standard Contracts in order to facilitate transaction reporting under REMIT, including the reporting of orders to trade.
The List of Standard Contracts will also serve as a tool for market participants and other stakeholders to understand which table of the above REMIT implementing acts' annex they will have to use for the reporting. In the REMIT Quarterly Issue No. 25 /Q2 2021 the ACER highlighted that if the contracts requested to be listed by an OMP qualify as wholesale energy products, ACER ensures that the delivery point or zone is compliant with the List of Accepted EIC codes.

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