network area

part of a distribution network of one distribution network operator:

that is used as an administrative collecting point for performing the allocation of gas flows between the national grid and a distribution network as referred to in chapter 2 of the Allocation Code Gas;
within which the amounts injected, where necessary corrected for network links between distribution networks, are allocated to customers;
that is limited by the connections and system connections with which it is linked to;
that is not divisible into two or more areas that could, themselves, also form another network area