Regulation 2 Interpretation

In these Regulations—

• “aggregator” means the person appointed in accordance with regulation 3 (the aggregator);

• “CMA” means the Competition and Markets Authority^f1;

• “compliance notice” means a notice issued under regulation 15 (compliance notices);

• “diesel fuel” means a petroleum-derived liquid falling within CN code 2710 19 43 and used for self-propelling vehicles as referred to in Regulation (EC) No 715/2007 and Regulation (EC) No 595/2009;

• “flat file” means the electronic document referred to in regulation 13(2)(b);

• “grade”, in relation to a motor fuel, means the category of the fuel as denoted by an indicator described in Schedule 1 to the Alternative Fuel Labelling and Greenhouse Gas Emissions (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2019^f2;

• “information recipient” means a person described in regulation 12 (information recipients);

• “motor fuel” means petrol or diesel fuel;

• “motor fuel trader” means a person who offers motor fuel for sale in the course of a retail business, whether acting personally or through another person acting in the motor fuel trader’s name or on the motor fuel trader’s behalf;

• “petrol” means any volatile mineral oil intended for the operation of internal combustion positive-ignition engines for the propulsion of vehicles and falling within CN codes 2710 12 41, 2710 12 45, 2710 12 49 and 2710 12 50;

• “petrol filling station” means premises from which a motor fuel trader offers motor fuel for sale in the course of a retail business;

• “price API” has the meaning given in regulation 13(1) (sharing of price information);

• “price information” means the following information in relation to a petrol filling station—

  1. (a)

     the unique number assigned under regulation 7, and

  2. (b)

     the information in paragraphs 1 to 10 of Schedule 1 (registration information);

• “registration information” means the information listed in Schedule 1 in relation to a petrol filling station;

• “Regulation (EC) No 595/2009” means Regulation (EC) No 595/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 June 2009 on type-approval of motor vehicles and engines with respect to emissions from heavy duty vehicles (Euro VI) and on access to vehicle repair and maintenance information and amending Regulation (EC) No 715/2007 and Directive 2007/46/EC and repealing Directives 80/1269/EEC, 2005/55/EC and 2005/78/EC^f3, as it had effect immediately before IP completion day;

• “Regulation (EC) No 715/2007” means Regulation (EC) No 715/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2007 on type approval of motor vehicles with respect to emissions from light passenger and commercial vehicles (Euro 5 and Euro 6) and on access to vehicle repair and maintenance information^f4, as it had effect immediately before IP completion day;

• “relevant petrol filling station”, in relation to a motor fuel trader, means a petrol filling station from which that motor fuel trader offers motor fuel for sale in the course of a retail business;

• “reportable information” means information provided by a motor fuel trader under regulation 9(2) (duty to provide motor fuel price changes);

• “selling price”, in relation to a grade of motor fuel, means the price at which a litre of the grade of fuel is offered for sale at a petrol filling station, before applying any discount to which particular customers may be entitled;

• “undertaking” has the same meaning as it has for the purposes of Part 1 of the Competition Act 1998^f5 (competition: agreements, abuse of dominant position etc).

In paragraph (1), any reference to a numbered CN code is a reference to the code set out in Annex 1 to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 of 23 July 1987 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff^f6, as it had effect immediately before IP completion day.