Regulation 17 Amendment to regulation 54

In regulation 54 (allocation reports), for paragraph (3) substitute—

“(3)

Where the allocation process for the allocation round has included a competitive process under which bids of strike prices were made, the Secretary of State—

(a)

may only direct the delivery body to provide information in respect of those bids in an anonymised form;

(b)

must not require the delivery body to provide the strike prices submitted as part of those bids;

(c)

must not require the delivery body to provide the information until after it makes the first CFD notification after the allocation round involving those bids.

(4)

The Secretary of State may disclose information obtained under paragraph (3) to a person providing services to the Secretary of State in connection with the evaluation of any allocation round, to the extent that the disclosure is required to enable that person to provide those services.”.