Nord Pool and AS “Augstsprieguma tikls” since 11 January 2017 for Latvia and Estonia-Latvia border realise pilot with shorter gate closure time(30 minutes prior to delivery hour) for Intraday trading). The pilot is operating is realised together with ongoing pilots in Finland and in Estonia and on the Estlink cables. Initially the pilot was planned till 31 March 2017, but taking into account positive experiences gained by market participants from the pilot, there was made decision that the 30-minute Intraday gate closure pilot will be continued as an interim solution until the XBID trading solution, and possible other related changes, take effect.