The Electricity Network Codes and Guidelines (System Operation and Connection) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

4.—(1) Article 3 is amended as follows.

(2) At the beginning insert—

“1.   In this Regulation—

(a) any reference to Commission Regulation (EU) 2016/631, Commission Regulation (EU) 2016/1388 or Commission Regulation 2016/1447 is a reference to that Regulation as it applied in EU law immediately before exit day; and

(b) any reference to a mandatory requirement under any of those Regulations is to be treated as a reference to a requirement under that Regulation which, immediately before exit day, was a mandatory requirement for TSOs in Great Britain.”.

(3) Number the first existing paragraph as paragraph 2, and in that paragraph—

(a) at the beginning of the sentence insert, “Except where stated in this Article,”;

(b) omit “Article 2 of Directive 2009/72/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council,”;

(c) omit the words from “, Article 2 of Regulation (EU) 2015/1222” to “Article 2 of Regulation (EU) 2016/1719,”.

(4) Number the second existing paragraph as paragraph 3, and in that paragraph after point (13) insert—

“(14) “regulatory authority” means the Gas and Electricity Markets Authority.

(15) “SGU” or “significant grid user” means an electricity grid user of a kind specified in Article 2(1) of Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/1485.”.

(5) After paragraph 3 insert—

“4.   The following expressions have the meanings given in Article 2 of Commission Regulation (EU) 2016/631—

‘active power’;

‘black start capability’;

‘connection point’;

‘current’;

‘entity’;

‘frequency’;

‘frequency control’;

‘houseload operation’;

‘inertia’;

‘instruction’;

‘island operation’;

‘limited frequency sensitive mode – overfrequency’;

‘limited frequency sensitive mode – underfrequency’;

‘network’;

‘power park module’;

‘relevant system operator’;

‘voltage’.

5.   The following expressions have the meanings given in Article 2 of Commission Regulation (EU) 2016/1388—

‘block loading’;

‘control room’;

‘demand facility’;

‘low frequency demand disconnection’;

‘on load tap changer’.”.