Article 5 Amendment of article 4 (definition of supplier)

Article 4 (definition of a supplier) is amended as follows.

For paragraphs (2) and (3) substitute—

“(2)

A person must supply at least 50,000 domestic customers on 31st December of the year 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 or 2011.

(3)

A company that belongs to a group of companies must on 31st December of the year 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 or 2011 supply domestic customers and the number of domestic customers of that company and of other companies in the group must be at least 50,000.”.

For paragraph (5) substitute—

“(5)

A new supplier is a supplier to whom paragraph (1) applies for the first time on 31st December 2008, 31st December 2009, 31st December 2010 or 31st December 2011.”.