EASEE-gas was set up in 2002 in order to develop and promote business practices to simplify and streamline both physical gas transfer and trading across Europe. We aim to represent all segments of the gas industry and our full members are companies that appreciate the benefits that EASEE-gas brings to the gas industry.
Introduction to the EASEE-gas Security Certificates.
EASEE-gas has decided to use the AS2 protocol over public Internet to exchange EDIG@S messages. Since the Internet is the single backbone to which everything connects, everything therefore is potentially vulnerable.
Thus business information which is exchanged via this network should be protected. An essential part of this protection is the use of certificates. Digital security certificates must be issued by an independent certificate provider.
The consequence could be that companies obtain certificates from a lot of different certificate providers. This would lead to the fact that all information exchanging parties involved would face an enormous maintenance effort.
The EASEE-gas organization recognized these issues and found it necessary to act as a single certificate provider as a service to all of the business partners in the European gasmarket. The EASEE-gas organization is independent but strongly related to the European gas market and can therefore act as an independent issuer of these digital security certificates.
For information on the steps taken by EASEE-gas to ensure the continuing functioning of EASEE-gas certificates following the declared bankruptcy of DigiNotar, please see here
CBP Implementation Survey report now available!
EASEE-gas, the European Association for the Streamlining of Energy Exchange-gas, has requested the European natural gas industry to respond to the fourth survey on progress of implementation of the approved "Common Business Practices" early 2010, and is pleased to announce the publication of the 2010 Review of the Implementation progress of the EASEE-gas Common Business Practices (CBPs). The report gives a clear overview of the experiences of EASEE-gas Members and where appropriate indicates by country the progress of implementation or existence of barriers of any kind.
2010 CBP Implementation progress Report
News Update 09/11/09
The Executive Committee has released one new Common Business Practices.
- CBP 2009/001-01 Harmonisation of the operating of contracts
For more information, please follow this link or view the press release.
