Adjacent network operator
Operator of the gas trans­mission pipeline(s) connected to the storage.

Affiliated company
has the meaning ascribed to it in Section 27, paragraph 2 of the GT&Cs.

Allocation
Assignment of natural gas quantities to individual storage contracts, with common recording of measured values in a metering station.

BEB’s facilities
has the meaning ascribed to it in Section 21, paragraph 10 of the GT&Cs.

Bundled services
Storages are techni­cally designed for specific appli­ca­tions. The working gas volume is therefore in a certain ratio to the withdrawal rate and injection rate. In order to obtain optimum benefit from the storage the bundled services reflect this ratio as described in Section 4 paragraph 1.

CET / CEST
Abbre­viation for Central European (Summer) Time. The appli­cation of CET and CEST is deter­mined by the official German local time.

Confi­dential infor­mation
has the meaning ascribed to it in Section 26, paragraph 1 of the GT&Cs.

Contes­tation of retrieval
has the meaning ascribed to it in Section 15, paragraph 4 of the GT&Cs.

Contracting procedure
Procedure for request and conclusion of storage contract of BEB Speicher GmbH & Co. KG, Hanover, as Section 8.

Cross-border price
has the meaning ascribed to it in Attachment 6, paragraph 6.8.