Bulletin – Rule 004 – Tariff
The AUC announced the approval of changes to AUC Rule 004: Albert Tariff Billing Code Rules (“Rule 004”), which were approved on March 11, 2015, and will become effective April 1, 2015.
Since the approved changes involve system changes to tariff billing, the AUC will provide market participants time during 2015 to implement the changes required. The text of the update in Rule 004 provides the AUC’s rationale for the lag in implementation:
This lag between the approval date and the implementation date is to recognize that the approved revisions to Rule 004 will require industry stakeholders to make changes to their business processes and information technology systems in order to be compliant. The lag provides these entities the time to develop, implement and test their internal changes so that there is no disruption in the business processes once the revised changes are to take effect.
