{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2009-73/annex-I/division-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2009-73/annex-I/division-2.json",
  "legislation": "eudr/2009/73",
  "legislation_title": "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 (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2009-73",
  "path": "annex/I/division/2",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Member States shall ensure the implementation of intelligent metering systems that shall assist the active participation of consumers in the gas supply market. The implementation of those metering systems may be subject to an economic assessment of all the long-term costs and benefits to the market and the individual consumer or which form of intelligent metering is economically reasonable and cost-effective and which timeframe is feasible for their distribution.\nSuch assessment shall take place by 3 September 2012.\nSubject to that assessment, Member States or any competent authority they designate, shall prepare a timetable for the implementation of intelligent metering systems.\nThe Member States or any competent authority they designate, shall ensure the interoperability of those metering systems to be implemented within their territories and shall have due regard to the use of appropriate standards and best practice and the importance of the development of the internal market in natural gas.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/2009/73/annex/I/division/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:22:09.198953+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}