Article 72 1

(a)

energy efficiency regarding hydrogen networks and components as well as energy efficiency with regard to network planning and investments enabling the most energy efficient solution from a system perspective;

(b)

interoperability rules for the hydrogen network, including addressing interconnection agreements, units, data exchange, transparency, communication, information provision and cooperation among relevant market participants as well as hydrogen quality, including common specifications at interconnection points and standardisation, odorisation, cost benefit analyses for removing cross-border flow restrictions due to hydrogen quality differences and reporting on hydrogen quality;

(c)

rules for the system of financial compensation for cross-border hydrogen infrastructure referred to in Article 59 of Directive (EU) 2024/1788;

(d)

capacity-allocation and congestion-management rules, including rules on cooperation on maintenance procedures and capacity calculation affecting capacity allocation, the standardisation of capacity products and units including bundling, the allocation methodology including auction algorithms, sequence and procedure for existing, incremental, firm and interruptible capacity, capacity booking platforms, oversubscription and buy back schemes, short and long-term use-it-or-lose-it schemes or any other congestion-management scheme that prevents the hoarding of capacity;

(e)

rules regarding harmonised tariff structures for hydrogen network access, including for tariffs at interconnection points as referred to in Article 7(8), rules on the application of a reference price methodology, the associated consultation and publication requirements including for the allowed or target revenue, as well as the calculation of reserve prices for standard capacity products and allowed revenue;

(f)

rules for determining the value of transferred assets and the dedicated charge;

(g)

rules for determining the inter-temporal cost allocation;

(h)

balancing rules including network-related rules on nomination procedure, rules for imbalance charges and rules for operational balancing between hydrogen network operators’ networks, imbalance charges, settlement processes associated with the daily imbalance charge and operational balancing between hydrogen network operators’ networks;

(i)

cybersecurity aspects of cross-border hydrogen flows, including rules on common minimum requirements, planning, monitoring, reporting and crisis management.