[F110CReport where applicant connected with a country outside the European Economic AreaU.K.
(1)This section applies if the Secretary of State is notified by the Authority under section 10B(3) that an application has been made by a person from a third country or a person controlled by a person from a third country.
(2)The Secretary of State must prepare a report on whether the security of electricity supplies in the United Kingdom or any other EEA state would be put at risk by the certification of the applicant.
(3)The Secretary of State must prepare the report and send it to the Authority within the 6 weeks beginning with the day on which the notification is received.
(4)If, before the Secretary of State sends the report to the Authority, the Authority receives information under section 10B(4) or (5) and thinks that the information is relevant to the preparation of the report, the Authority must supply that information to the Secretary of State as soon as is reasonably practicable.
(5)In preparing the report, the Secretary of State must take into account—
(a)any relevant international law; and
(b)any relevant agreement between the government of the United Kingdom and the government of the third country in question.]
Textual Amendments
F1Ss. 10A-10O and cross-heading inserted (10.11.2011) by The Electricity and Gas (Internal Markets) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/2704), regs. 1(1), 5