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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2019-944/article-4",
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  "legislation": "eudr/2019/944",
  "legislation_title": "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) (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2019-944",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Free choice of supplier",
  "text": "Member States shall ensure that all customers are free to purchase electricity from the supplier of their choice and shall ensure that all customers are free to have more than one electricity supply contract at the same time, provided that the required connection and metering points are established.",
  "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/2019/944/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:21:26.411869+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."
}