Draft Precedent Agreement (PA)

Herewith we would like to inform you about the next step of the Integrated Open Season process. As of today the drafted Precedent Agreement (PA) for the Integrated Open Season (IOS) of Gasunie Deutschland Transport Services GmbH (Gasunie Deutschland) and Gas Transport Services B.V. (GTS) has been published on the IOS website www.integratedopenseason.com. The PA is a joint agreement by Gasunie Deutschland and GTS, so that Shippers, who are qualified for the second phase of the IOS, have to sign only one contract, even if they want to book capacities from both TSOs.

Gasunie Deutschland and GTS kindly request all registered Shippers to comment on this draft and sent us their remarks until 26 June 2009 via e-mail to

Ingo.Apelt@gasunie.de

Thomas.Lodzig@gasunie.de

H.W.Abbing@gastransport.nl 

J.C.W.Eggink@gastransport.nl

Prior to the start of the binding phase of IOS (1 August 2009) Gasunie Deutschland and GTS will publish the final version of the Precedent Agreement on the IOS-Website.

A German version of the document and some explanations of the capacity allocation procedure will be published for information within the next days on the IOS-Website.