Energy Identification Codes

EIC system presentation

In order to ensure efficient data exchanges within the European energy market, ENTSO-E (European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity) implemented a common standard identification scheme: the EIC codes (Energy Identification Codes).

EIC codification scheme as well as the administrative organization for the EIC system are managed by ENTSO-E as Central issuing office (CIO).

Gas and electricity entities’ referencing is ensured by Local issuing offices (LIO). These LIOs operate at a national scale and are responsible for the allocation and management of EIC codes.

Since the 1st of July 2017, GRTgaz has been a Local issuing office whose LIO code is “63” (all the EIC codes delivered by GRTgaz start with these two digits: “63”). GRTgaz’ issuing office deals with every gas actor operating in France who ask for a EIC referencing for the first time. 

Electricity market entities continue to deal with RTE who has been the historical LIO for the French market.

For any further information, you can visit ENTSO-E website as well as the reference manual  « THE ENERGY IDENTIFICATION CODING SCHEME (EIC) REFERENCE MANUAL ».

Asking for EIC identification

You are asking for a EIC reference code?

Informations about entity

Entity name : Entity full name.
70 alphanumeric characters maximum. Special characters and accents are to be avoided.
ENTITY NAME is not valid
Display name : Short name starting with « FRG_ » used for computer processing (List view , search , sorting). It is unique by code type.
16 alphanumeric characters maximum. Only these characters are allowed : 'A'..'Z', '-', '_', '0'..'9'.
DISPLAY NAME is not valid
Address 1 : Entity address.
70 alphanumeric characters maximum. Special characters are to be avoided.
ADRESSE is not valid
(optional)
Address 2 : Entity address.
70 alphanumeric characters maximum. Special characters are to be avoided.
(optional)
Address 3 : Entity address.
70 alphanumeric characters maximum. Special characters are to be avoided.
ZIP Code : Entity ZIP code.
10 alphanumeric characters maximum.
ZIP CODE is not valid
City : City or locality of the entity.
35 characters maximum.
CITY is not valid
Country : Entity country.
COUNTRY is not valid

Contact within entity

Contact person : Full name of contact person representing the entity. 70 alphanumeric characters maximum.
CONTACT PERSON is not valid
Telephone number : contact person telephone number.
Convention to comply to : '+id.country (telephone code) local number'. Example with a French number : +33146004902.
15 alphanumeric characters maximum.
PHONE NUMBER is not valid

Entity Identification

VAT Code : Entity VAT code.
14 alphanumeric characters maximum. White spaces and separators are to be removed.
VAT CODE is not valid
(optional)
ACER Code : ACER code mandatory if actors are reporting on REMIT platform.
12 characters.
International : A code is international when it can be used on different European markets. Counter to local EIC code which can be used only on the designed market.
INTERNATIONAL is not valid
(optional)
Description : Free entry.
700 characters maximum.

Function(s) of entity

SELECT
MULTIPLE POSSIBLE CHOICES
Please choose an entity function
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non-liability clause 
Please acccept the GCU

EIC CODES : QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

You are wondering if you already have a EIC reference code or you cannot find it anymore?

Please contact the Local issuing office in charge of the country where you are operating (RTE or GRTgaz in France). You can also browse local registries from the different LIOs.

EIC types and local registry

You can download the local registry with all the active local EIC codes allocated by GRTgaz.

Here are the different EIC codes that you may find:

  • X Type (Party): Allows to identify System Operators, shippers, traders, producers, consumers, power exchanges, network operators, suppliers, agents, service providers…
  • Y Type (Area): Allows to identify local grids where metering points are located, market balance areas consisting of a number of local grids, control areas, domain…
  • Z Type (Measurement Point): Allows to identify cross border connections, metering points, settlement or accounting points…
  • W Type (Resource Object): Allows to identify production or consumption resource such as power plants, production units, generation units, gas storage… Excluded are the passive elements in the grid, e.g. lines or transformers.
  • T Type (Tie-line): Allows to identify connecting objects such as interconnection lines, lines, busbar-couples, transformers, etc.
  • V Type (Location): Allows to identify the physical or logical place of an EIC participant or to identify the IT system. This code can serve to identify the servers for Flow-Based for example.
  • A Type (Substations): Allows to identify the substations (stations, passive nodes,...).

For the international codes or those that are not on our website, please refer to the ENTSO-E website.

Disclaimer on published EIC and VAT codes

The objective of this Internet page is to allow persons involved in the energy market to get information on the Energy Identification Code (EIC) necessary to carry out electronic data interchange (EDI).

In no event shall GRTgaz be liable for any damages of any kind, including, but not limited to, direct, indirect, general, special, incidental, or consequential damages arising out of any use of the information obtained using this site. In particular, VAT codes are only provided for information purposes and it is the responsibility of the party to assess the validity using for example the Taxations and Customs Union web site.

In addition, our goal is to minimize disruption caused by technical errors. However, some data or information on this page may have been created or structured in files or formats which are not error-free and we cannot guarantee that our service will not be interrupted or otherwise affected by such problems. GRTgaz accepts no liability with regard to such problems incurred as a result of using this site or any linked external sites.