Auction Announcement Notice – 2020/4

Hungarian Gas Storage Ltd (hereinafter referred to as MFGT) on this day announces an auction for booking available storage capacities for the storage years 2020/21 and 2021/22. The capacity auction is carried out by MFGT in line with the Storage Capacity Auction Regulation II/B document as per Annex No. 1.

Auction Details:

Auction name		2020/4		Auction Type	Minimum price
Registration deadline		08.09.2020 12:00		Partial delivery	Yes
Bid submission deadline		10.09.2020 12:00		Currency of the Bid	HUF
Product		Auction_20_22		Maximum bid price	As per Tariff Decree, HUF/kWh
Bid period		01.04.2020 - 31.03.2022		Bid price unit of quantity	0.01
Content of one bundle				Minimum number of bid bundles	1	piece
	Working gas capacity	1500000	kWh	Maximum number of bid bundles	1 105	pieces
	Injection capacity	75 000	kWh/day	Bid/participant	1	piece
	Withdrawal capacity	8 334	kWh/day	The bid price does not include the volume fees or the VAT.
Injection cycle		in relevant storage year from 01.04. to 30.09.
Withdrawal cycle		in relevant storage year from 01.10. to 31.03.

The Auction can be accessed via MFGT’s IT Platform, following an early registration (https://nom.mfgt.hu/SMCS.html).

Capacity Bidders with valid registration for storage year 2020/2021 are not required to repeat their registration unless the content of the previously submitted document has changed.

Registration

At the capacity auction, bids can be made by only those capacity bidders that are eligible for storage access, and whose documents submitted during the registration process were accepted.

Documents required for registration:

Original certificate of incorporation not older than 30 days in case of business organisations registered in Hungary and abroad, and its translated copy in Hungarian or in English (certified translation is not required, in case of companies registered in Hungary, the online version by the Hungarian Ministry of Justice is accepted – http://www.e-cegjegyzek.hu/ ) in case of business organisations registered abroad.
The original copy of the power of attorney (Annex No. 8.3 of the MFGT Code of Business Conduct: Storage Capacity Auction Regulation II/B, Annex No. 1) authorizing the Attorney(s)-in-fact to act during the capacity auction process on behalf of the capacity bidding company, the Bidder. The power of attorney shall clearly indicate that the attorney-in-fact is entitled to represent the capacity bidder during the Submission of Bids.
In case of business organisations registered in Hungary: copy of the notarised specimen signature(s) or sample signature(s) countersigned by an attorney-at-law of the authorised signatory (signatories) signing the Power of Attorney.
In case of business organisations registered abroad: copy and translated English or Hungarian copy of the notarised specimen signature(s) (or sample signature(s) countersigned by an attorney-at-law) of the authorised signatory (signatories) signing the Power of Attorney; or the original copy and translated English or Hungarian copy of their sample signature signed in manuscript in the presence of two witnesses, and in the latter case: a Hungarian or English copy of the signed side of a personal document belonging to the signatory (by mail or e-mail).
Original copy of “Basic Data for IT Platform (SMCS) Registration”.

Accordingly, in order to participate in the capacity auction, the listed documents shall be delivered until the registration deadline specified for this auction. Although registrations received after the deadline specified in the registration process may be accepted, they only qualify the capacity bidder to submit bids on subsequent auctions announced in storage year 2020/2021, as they shall be considered as void in terms of this auction.

MFGT reserves the right to request deficiency correction from the participant – if any formal or substantive deficiency or other non-conformity (e.g.: delay) is detected during the specific review of the documents submitted –, and the participant may not have valid registration for the auction unless such deficiency correction is performed within the deadline – set forth by MFGT.

Deadline for submitting to MFGT the documents required for registration in relation to this auction: 8 September 2020, 12:00

In case of a valid registration, MFGT confirms the fact of registration to the Bidder by e-mail.

During registration, MFGT shall be obliged to treat data submitted to the auction in a confidential manner and will not disclose them to any third party.

Final Provisions

Particularities of working gas capacities available under this announcement notice:

In the event that for any technical reasons (e.g.: pressure conditions, machinery capacities etc.) the whole or part of the working gas capacity requested on the basis of this announcement notice cannot be fulfilled, MFGT shall refund the capacity fee paid for the unfulfilled quantity of working gas capacity, and simultaneously, for the remainder of the contractual period, System User shall lose its entitlement to the injection and withdrawal capacities (kWh/day) belonging to the unfulfilled working gas capacity (kWh) (pro rata based on bookings made under this auction). MFGT explicitly excludes any other damages or liability for damages in relation to the inability to fulfil the whole or part of the working gas capacity.

MFGT shall publish it on its website if for any technical reasons the service can no longer be provided.

System User has understood the above and submits a bid regarding working gas capacities accordingly.

Awarded bidders shall be notified by MFGT following the evaluation until 17:00 hours.

Following the auction, MFGT and the Bidder having submitted a valid and successful bid shall conclude the Natural Gas Storage Contract on the awarded natural gas storage capacities within 5 business days from the auction.

Auctioneer (MFGT) explicitly reserves the right to withdraw without explanation the open storage electronic capacity Auction announced as Capacity Auction No. 2020/4 until the announcement of its results.

In the event that the Auction is withdrawn, Auctioneer will not compensate for any damage or cost incurred by the bidders.

By participating in the auction, Bidders shall accept that due to existing storage bookings, MFGT will not provide Express Service for the storage year 2020/2021 and 2021/2022 with regard to the quantities awarded at this capacity auction.

Should you have any further questions or require information in relation to the auction, please consult the designated contact persons of MFGT: Hajnalka Horváth (Phone: +36 30-748-99-71, e-mail: horvathh@mfgt.hu and Dóra Tóth (Phone: +36-20-236-1972, e-mail: tothd@mfgt.hu), sales experts.

Annexes:

Budapest, 2 September 2020