S.L. 545.12 Art. 30Record keeping.

(1) Supply undertakings shall keep at the disposal of the national authorities, including the Regulator, the national competition authorities and the Commission, for the fulfilment of their tasks, for at least five years, the relevant data relating to all transactions in gas supply contracts and gas derivatives with wholesale customers and transmission system operators as well as storage and LNG operators.

(2) The data mentioned in sub-regulation (1) shall include details on the characteristics of the relevant transactions such as duration, delivery and settlement rules, the quantity, the dates and times of execution and the transaction prices and means of identifying the wholesale customer concerned, as well as specified details of all unsettled gas supply contracts and gas derivatives.

(3) The Regulator may decide to make available to market participants elements of that information: Provided that commercially sensitive information on individual market players or individual transactions shall not be released: Provided further that, this regulation shall not apply to information about financial instruments which fall within the scope of Directive 2004/39/EC.

(4) With respect to transactions in gas derivatives of supply undertakings with wholesale customers and transmission system operators as well as storage and LNG operators, this regulation shall apply only once the Commission has adopted the Guidelines which define the methods and arrangements for record keeping as well as the form and content of the data that shall be kept.

(5) The provisions of this regulation shall not create additional obligations towards the authorities referred to in subregulation (1) for entities falling within the scope of Directive 2004/39/EC.

(6) In the event that the authorities referred to in sub-regulation

(1) need require access to data kept by entities falling within the scope of Directive 2004/39/EC, the authorities responsible under that Directive shall provide them with the required data.