{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2014-32/annex-V/division-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2014-32/annex-V/division-2.json",
  "legislation": "eudr/2014/32",
  "legislation_title": "Directive 2014/32/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2014 on the harmonisation of the laws of the Member States relating to the making available on the market of measuring instruments (recast) (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2014-32",
  "path": "annex/V/division/2",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "DEFINITIONS",
  "text": "An active electrical energy meter is a device which measures the active electrical energy consumed in a circuit.\nI\n=\nthe electrical current flowing through the meter;\nIn\n=\nthe specified reference current for which the transformer operated meter has been designed;\nIst\n=\nthe lowest declared value of I at which the meter registers active electrical energy at unity power factor (polyphase meters with balanced load);\nImin\n=\nthe value of I above which the error lies within maximum permissible errors (MPEs) (polyphase meters with balanced load);\nItr\n=\nthe value of I above which the error lies within the smallest MPE corresponding to the class index of the meter;\nImax\n=\nthe maximum value of I for which the error lies within the MPEs;\nU\n=\nthe voltage of the electricity supplied to the meter;\nUn\n=\nthe specified reference voltage;\nf\n=\nthe frequency of the voltage supplied to the meter;\nfn\n=\nthe specified reference frequency;\nPF\n=\npower factor = cosφ = the cosine of the phase difference φ between I and U.",
  "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/2014/32/annex/V/division/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:21:47.505881+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."
}