Regulation 51 Review

Before the end of each review period, the Secretary of State must—

In carrying out the review the Secretary of State must, so far as is reasonable, have regard to how the Third Package and ITC Regulation (relevant provisions of which are implemented by means of these Regulations) are implemented in other Member States.

The report must in particular—

“Review period” means—

If a report under this regulation is published before the last day of the review period to which it relates, the following review period is to begin with the day on which that report is published.

In this regulation—

• “2010 Amending Decision” means Commission Decision 2010/685/EU of 10 November 2010 amending Chapter 3 of Annex I to Regulation 2009/715/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on conditions for access to the natural gas network^f1;

• “ITC Regulation” means Commission Regulation 2010/838/EU of 23 September 2010 on laying down guidelines relating to the inter-transmission system operator compensation mechanism and a common regulatory approach to transmission charging^f2;

• “Third Package” means—

  1. (a)

     Regulation 2009/713/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 establishing an Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators^f3;

  2. (b)

     Regulation 2009/714/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 on conditions for access to the network for cross-border exchanges in electricity and repealing Regulation 2003/1228/EC^f4;

  3. (c)

     Regulation 2009/715/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 on conditions for access to the natural gas transmission networks and repealing Regulation 2005/1775/EC^f5, as amended by the 2010 Amending Decision;

  4. (d)

     Directive 2009/72/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 concerning common rules for the internal market in electricity and repealing Directive 2003/54/EC^f6;

  5. (e)

     Directive 2009/73/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 concerning common rules for the internal market in natural gas and repealing Directive 2003/55/EC^f7.