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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2010-617/article-2",
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  "legislation": "eur/2010/617",
  "legislation_title": "Council Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 617/2010 of 24 June 2010 concerning the notification to the Commission of investment projects in energy infrastructure within the European Union and repealing Regulation (EC) No 736/96",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2010-617",
  "path": "article/2",
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  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Definitions",
  "text": "For the purpose of this Regulation, the following definitions shall apply:\n1.. ‘infrastructure’ means any type of installations or part of installations related to production, transmission and storage;\n2.. ‘investment projects’ means projects aiming at:\n(i) building new infrastructure;\n(ii) transforming, modernising, increasing or reducing capacities of existing infrastructure;\n(iii) partial or total decommissioning of existing infrastructure;\n3.. ‘final investment decision’ means the decision taken at the level of an undertaking to definitively earmark funds towards the investment phase of a project, the investment phase meaning the phase during which construction or decommissioning takes place and capital costs are incurred. The investment phase excludes the planning phase, during which project implementation is prepared and which includes, where appropriate, a feasibility assessment, preparatory and technical studies, obtaining licences and authorisations and incurring capital costs;\n4.. ‘investment projects under construction’ means investment projects for which construction has started and capital costs are incurred;\n5.. ‘decommissioning’ means the phase where an infrastructure is permanently taken out of operation;\n6.. ‘production’ means the generation of electricity and the processing of fuels, including bio-fuels;\n7.. ‘transmission’ means the transport of energy sources or products or carbon dioxide, through a network, in particular:\n(i) through pipelines, other than upstream pipeline network and other than the part of pipelines primarily used in the context of local distribution; or\n(ii) through extra high voltage and high-voltage interconnected systems and other than the systems primarily used in the context of local distribution;\n8.. ‘storage’ means the stocking on a permanent or temporary basis of energy or energy sources in above-ground or underground infrastructure or geological sites or containment of carbon dioxide in underground geological formations;\n9.. ‘undertaking’ means any natural or legal private or public person, deciding or implementing investment projects;\n10.. ‘energy sources’ means:\n(i) primary energy sources, such as oil, natural gas or coal;\n(ii) transformed energy sources, such as electricity;\n(iii) renewable energy sources including hydroelectricity, biomass, biogas, wind, solar, tidal, wave and geothermal energy; and\n(iv) energy products, such as refined oil products and bio-fuels;\n11.. ‘specific body’ means a body entrusted by any energy sector-specific legal act of the Union with the preparation and adoption of Union-wide multi-annual network development and investment plans in energy infrastructure, such as the European network of transmission system operators for electricity (‘ENTSO-E’) referred to in Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 714/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 on conditions for access to the network for cross-border exchanges in electricity and the European network for transmission system operators for gas (‘ENTSO-G’) referred to in Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 715/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 on conditions for access to the natural gas transmission networks.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 211, 14.8.2009, p. 15."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ L 211, 14.8.2009, p. 36."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2010/617/article/2",
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  },
  "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."
}