Common use of Terms and Conditions for Balance Group Management Clause in Contracts

Terms and Conditions for Balance Group Management. Trans Austria Gasleitung GmbH (“TAG GmbH”) enables its System Users to allocate Entry and/or Exit capacity to balance groups or sub balance accounts by means of a Balance Group Management service available under TAG GmbH’s Commercial Services Area. The offered Balance Group Management service has been implemented pursuant to the provisions of the Austrian Natural Gas Xxx 0000, the Other Market Rules (Sonstige Marktregeln, SoMa), the General Terms and Conditions for Transmission Network Access of TAG GmbH and the Capacity Contract stipulated between the System User and TAG GmbH. The conclusion of a Capacity Contract and compliance with the respective rules entitle the System User to allocate Entry and/or Exit capacity to a balance group or a sub balance account. The EIC code of the System User is needed for the allocation of capacity to a balance group or sub balance account. System User is responsible for verifying that the capacity gets allocated under the correct EIC code. Capacities in a balance group or sub balance account can only be used if the following conditions for capacity usage are met. For a capacity usage the following conditions must be met: • The respective capacity is allocated to a balance group or sub balance account no later than 3 (three) full hours before the start of capacity usage. • The respective capacity (direction) is already established in the respective balance group or sub balance account. • The balance group or sub balance account has been active at this Entry/Exit Point before and established matching notifications (Shipper-Code-Pairs) have been used. • If one of the above conditions is not met the capacity allocated to the balance group or sub balance account cannot be used by allocation until 3 (three) full hours before the start of the capacity usage. For all other capacity usages the following lead times apply: For the first creation in the system for allocation of new capacity to a balance group or sub balance account the respective capacity has to be allocated to the active balance group or sub balance account at least three (3) full working days before the begin of capacity usage.

Terms and Conditions for Balance Group Management. Trans Austria Gasleitung GmbH (“TAG GmbH”) enables its System Users to allocate Entry and/or Exit capacity to balance groups or sub balance accounts by means of a Balance Group Management service available under TAG GmbH’s Commercial Services Area. The offered Balance Group Management service has been implemented pursuant to the provisions of the Austrian Natural Gas Xxx 0000Act 2011, the Other Market Rules (Sonstige Marktregeln, SoMa), the General Terms and Conditions for Transmission Network Access of TAG GmbH and the Capacity Contract stipulated between the System User and TAG GmbH. The conclusion of a Capacity Contract and compliance with the respective rules entitle the System User to allocate Entry and/or Exit capacity to a balance group or a sub balance account. The EIC code of the System User is needed for the allocation of capacity to a balance group or sub balance account. System User is responsible for verifying that the capacity gets allocated under the correct EIC code. Capacities in a balance group or sub balance account can only be used if the following conditions for capacity usage are met. For a capacity usage the following conditions must be met: • The respective capacity is allocated to a balance group or sub balance account no later than 3 (three) full hours before the start of capacity usage. • The respective capacity (direction) is already established in the respective balance group or sub balance account. • The balance group or sub balance account has been active at this Entry/Exit Point before and established matching notifications (Shipper-Code-Pairs) have been used. • If one of the above conditions is not met the capacity allocated to the balance group or sub balance account cannot be used by allocation until 3 (three) full hours before the start of the capacity usage. For all other capacity usages the following lead times apply: For the first creation in the system for allocation of new capacity to a balance group or sub balance account the respective capacity has to be allocated to the active balance group or sub balance account at least three (3) full working days before the begin of capacity usage.

Terms and Conditions for Balance Group Management. Trans Austria Gasleitung GmbH (“TAG GmbH”) enables its System Users to allocate Entry and/or Exit capacity to balance groups or sub balance accounts by means of a Balance Group Management service available under TAG GmbH’s Commercial Services Area. The offered Balance Group Management service has been implemented pursuant to the provisions of the Austrian Natural Gas Xxx 0000, the Other Market Rules (Sonstige Marktregeln, SoMa), the General Terms and Conditions for Transmission Network Access of TAG GmbH and the Capacity Contract stipulated between the System User and TAG GmbH. The conclusion of a Capacity Contract and compliance with the respective rules entitle the System User to allocate Entry and/or Exit capacity to a balance group or a sub balance account. The EIC code of the System User is needed for the allocation of capacity to a balance group or sub balance account. System User is responsible for verifying that the capacity gets allocated under the correct EIC code. Capacities in a balance group or sub balance account can only be used if the following conditions for capacity usage are met. For a capacity usage the following conditions must be met: • The respective capacity is allocated to a balance group or sub balance account no later than 3 19:00 (threeCET/CEST) full hours on the last working day before the start of capacity usageusage (D-1). • The respective capacity (direction) is already established in the respective balance group or sub balance account. • The balance group or sub balance account has been active at this Entry/Exit Point before and established matching notifications (Shipper-Code-Pairs) have been used. • If one of the above conditions is not met the capacity allocated to the balance group or sub balance account cannot be used by allocation until 3 19:00 (three) full hours before the start of the capacity usageD-1). For all other capacity usages the following lead times apply: For the first creation in the system for allocation of new capacity to a balance group or sub balance account the respective capacity has to be allocated to the active balance group or sub balance account at least three (3) full working days before the begin of capacity usage.