The Gas (Security of Supply and Network Codes) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

2.—(1) Article 2 is amended as follows. U.K.

(2) Renumber the existing text of Article 2 as paragraph 1.

(3) In paragraph 1—

(a) before point (1) insert—

“(A1) ‘the Gas Regulation’ means Regulation (EC) No 715/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council on conditions for access to natural gas transmission networks M1 ;

(A2) ‘the Northern Ireland department’ means the Department for the Economy;”;

(b) omit point (2);

(c) in point (5) (definition of “protected customer”)—

(i) for “Member State concerned” substitute “ Secretary of State ”;

(ii) for “that Member State” substitute “ the United Kingdom ”;

(d) omit point (6);

(e) in point (7) (definition of “competent authority”)—

(i) after “ ‘competent authority’” insert “ , in relation to a member State, ”;

(ii) for “Member” substitute “ member ”;

(iii) at the end insert “ as it applies in EU law ”;

(f) in point (8) (definition of “national regulatory authority”), after “ ‘national regulatory authority’” insert “ , in relation to a member State, ”;

(g) after point (8) insert—

“(8A) ‘regulatory authority’—

(a) in relation to Great Britain, means the Gas and Electricity Markets Authority; and

(b) in relation to Northern Ireland, means the Northern Ireland Authority for Utility Regulation.”

(h) omit point (9); and

(i) omit points (11) to (26).

(4) After paragraph 1 insert—

“2.   For the purposes of this Regulation, the following expressions have the meanings given in the Gas Regulation—

• ‘ancillary services’;

• ‘customer’;

• ‘distribution’;

• ‘distribution system operator’;

• ‘firm capacity’;

• ‘interconnector’;

• ‘interruptible capacity’;

• ‘LNG facility’;

• ‘LNG facility capacity’;

• ‘natural gas undertaking’;

• ‘storage capacity’;

• ‘system’;

• ‘system user’;

• ‘technical capacity’;

• ‘transmission’;

• ‘transmission system operator’.”.

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 1 para. 2 in force at 31.12.2020 on IP completion day (in accordance with 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)), see reg. 1(2)

Marginal Citations

M1 The Gas Regulation is amended by S.I. 2018/1286 and S.I. 2019/530.