Edig@s presentation

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Member countries
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Background

• Created in 1996 for the development of an
  international standard for information exchange.
• At the end of 1996 EDIFACT was chosen as the
  international standard to be used in message
  exchange.
• From 1997 to 2005 some 23 UN/EDIFACT message
  subsets were published in 3 major releases
• In 2006 work on the development of a new release
  incorporating the modeling and XML syntax was
  initiated.
• In 2007 version 4 of the Edig_at_s message set was
  approved. This version proposes the Edig_at_s
  messages in the UN/EDIFACT syntax and the XML
  syntax.

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European Association for the Streamlining of
Energy Exchange- gas

• Created in March 2002 at initiative of European
  Gas Regulatory Forum (Madrid Forum)
• Mission To develop and promote common practices
  to simplify and streamline business processes
  between the stakeholders that will lead to an
  efficient and effective European Gas Market
• Edig_at_s integrated into EASEE-gas as a subgroup
  of the Message Workflow Design WG.

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EASEE-gas Structure
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EASEE-gas Common Business Practices (CBP)

• Common Business Practices (CBPs) are
• Standards, procedures and/or protocols commonly
  used in the gas industry in Europe
• They are recommended by EASEE-gas
• For adoption by all relevant industry players to
  simplify and streamline business processes across
  Europe .

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Common Business Practices Approved to date
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What is Edig_at_s

• Edig_at_s is a comprehensive EDI Standard for the
  exchange of data via electronic means between
  parties involved in the Gas Industry.

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Version 4 improvements

• Defined process model
• Depreciated unused messages
• Streamlined Documentation
• Rationalised implementation guides
• Produced information models and explanatory
  documentation
• Upgraded to latest UN/EDIFACT Directory D.07A
• Supports UN/EDIFACT or XML syntax
• Defined roadmap for future releases

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Process model
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The Purchase Phase
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The Transport Phase
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The Allocation Phase
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The Settlement Phase
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The Exchange Nomination Phase(nominitions within
an exchange)
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Information model development
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Automatic XML generation
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UN/EDIFACT Mapping
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Streamlined documentation

• Documentation of a subject only defined once.
• Process flow defined in a specific section
• Message Implementation guide structure broken
  into 4 parts
• Introduction
• Information model (syntax neutral)
• Information model documentation (syntax neutral)
• UN/EDIFACT Implementation
• XML Implementation
• Examples defined seperately in a single section
• Segment structures defined in a single section
• Where necessary, other subjects such as the
  EDIFACT syntax specification, the URL address is
  provided.

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Deprecated Messages

• TRANTR Traders Net Trade Notice
• TRANCO Traders Net Confirmation Notice
• FLORAT Flow Rate Limit message
• QALNOT Quality Deficient Gas Notice message
• QALTAK Quality Deficient Gas Take Notice message
  
• DAYREP Daily Report message
• GENRAL General message
• GASREQ Gasdata Request message
• INVOIC Invoice message
• INVATT Attachment to Invoice message
• NOMINT Balancing Nomination
• NOMRES Balancing Nomination Response
• DAYREP MINFO, TINFO, LALL, BALL CINFO messages
  
• IMBNOT RNINFO RSINFO messages

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Roadmap for Future Releases
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UN/EDIFACT Support
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• For more information on
• this standard visit the
• Edig_at_s website at
• www.edigas.org