Connection to transmission system

Connection rules

On the basis of the Gas Market Act (OG 28/13 and 14/14) and the Network Code of the transmission system providing of a standard service of connection to the transmission system and increasing the connection capacity is carried out pursuant to the concluded Agreement on connection to the transmission system.

A final customer that wants to connect to the gas transmission system should primarily submit a request for connection to a distribution system operator that has concluded the contract on concession for this area.
Exceptionally, a final customer may be connected directly to the transmission system if it is:

Network Code of the transmission system prescribes in detail the procedure of issuing energy conditions and energy consent for connection, as well as conditions for connection to the transmission system. Basic information are given below.

Energy conditions for connection to the transmission system

Energy conditions for connection to the transmission system determine the possibility of connecting a facility to the transmission system, technical and economic conditions of the connection and the terms of the transmission system use.

Energy conditions are obtained in a procedure of issuing an act that determines location conditions, that is, special conditions, in accordance with which the main project has to be drawn up, pursuant to the acts that govern the field of physical planning, construction and construction products, or for connection of an existing building to the transmission system.

Along with the request for issuing energy conditions, an act approving the construction and the description of the gas grid of the facility is enclosed. On the basis of the carried out review of technical documentation, the transmission system operator is obliged to issue a certificate on the compliance of technical documentation with energy conditions or to require harmonization with energy conditions.

Energy conditions are issued by the transmission system operator
Form - Request for issuing energy conditions

Energy approval for connection to the transmission system

The investor or the owner of the facility submits a request for issuing energy approval and encloses with the request the act approving the construction in accordance with the acts governing the field of physical planning, construction and construction products.

An energy approval for connection to the transmission system contains all information as the energy conditions, as well as the information on the act approving the construction in accordance with the acts governing the field of physical planning, construction and construction products.

An energy approval is issued for each separate accounting metering point.
An energy approval is issued by the transmission system operator.

The costs of issuing an energy approval are borne by the investor or the owner of the facility that submitted the request for issuing the energy approval for connection to the transmission system, in compliance with the price list of non-standard services of the transmission system operator.
Form - Request for issuing energy approval

Request for issuing energy conditions for connection to the transmission system and Request for issuing energy approval for connection to the transmission system are submitted in writing, by delivering an adequate, duly completed form to the following address:

PLINACRO Ltd.
Development and Investment Division
Attn. Director
Savska cesta 88a,
10000 Zagreb



Agreement on connection to the transmission system

An agreement on connection to the transmission system is concluded on the basis of the issued energy consent.
The Agreement on connection to the transmission system is concluded by the transmission system operator and a distribution system operator or a storage system operator or natural gas producer or a final customer at the transmission system in the procedure of connection to the transmission system and in the procedure of increasing connecting capacity.
The Agreement on connection to the transmission system governs the conditions of connection to the transmission system and financial liabilities in compliance with the Methodology for determining a fee for connection to the gas distribution or gas transmission system and for the connection capacity increase (OG 76/14).

The transmission system operator is in charge of the construction of the connection to the transmission system within the time determined by the Agreement on connection to the transmission system.
Form - Agreement on connection to the transmission system 



Putting the connection into operation

The transmission system operator is obliged to, based on an energy approval, put into operation the connection of the facility at the earliest on the day of gas delivery commencement in compliance with the Agreement on gas supply that a connecting party concluded or will conclude with its gas supplier, and in which Agreement the connection is determined as a gas delivery location.

Following the stated, the gas supplier of a connecting party or a connecting party, if it is at the same time a gas supplier as well, has to conclude a relevant contract on gas transmission with the transmission system operator timely and in a prescribed manner, which is a precondition for putting the connection into operation.