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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-and-gas-internal-markets-no-2-regulations-2020/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2020/1401",
  "legislation_title": "The Electricity and Gas (Internal Markets) (No. 2) Regulations 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-and-gas-internal-markets-no-2-regulations-2020",
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  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations modify the standard conditions of licences granted under the Electricity Act 1989 (c. 29) in order to implement, and address matters arising out of or related to, the entry into force of Directive (EU) 2019/944 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 June 2019 on common rules for the internal market for electricity and amending Directive 2012/27/EU (recast) (“the Electricity Directive”). The Schedule to these Regulations modifies the standard conditions of licences granted under the Gas Act 1986 (c. 44) in a limited way to ensure that the relevant aspects of the billing regime are consistent across electricity and gas.\nCopies of those standard licence conditions are available for inspection on Ofgem’s Electronic Public Register website: https://epr.ofgem.gov.uk/Document. Indicative versions of the standard licence conditions are also available for inspection at Ofgem’s office at 10 South Colonnade, Canary Wharf, London, E14 4PU.\nThe Electricity Directive is part of a package of European energy measures collectively referred to as the “Clean Energy Package”.\nThe Clean Energy Package comprises Regulation (EU) 2019/942 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 June 2019 establishing a European Union Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (recast); Regulation (EU) 2019/943 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 June 2019 on the internal market for electricity (recast); Directive 2019/944 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 June 2019 on common rules for the internal market for electricity and amending Directive 2012/27/EU (recast) and five other dossiers.\nWhile costs and benefits have been assessed, a full impact assessment has not been prepared for these Regulations because the impacts are below the threshold required to carry out a full impact assessment.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Directive (EU) 2018/844 (energy efficiency in buildings); Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 (governance for the energy union); Directive (EU) 2018/2001 (renewable energy); Directive (EU) 2018/2002 (energy efficiency); and Regulation (EU) 2019/941 (risk-preparedness)."
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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