{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2011-1227/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2011-1227/article-6.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2011/1227",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EU) No 1227/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2011 on wholesale energy market integrity and transparency (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2011-1227",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Technical updating of definitions of inside information and market manipulation",
  "text": "1. A national authority may, by regulations, amend this Regulation in order to:\n(a) align the definitions set out in points (1), (2), (3) and (5) of Article 2 for the purpose of ensuring coherence with other relevant ... legislation in the fields of financial services and energy; and\n(b) update those definitions for the sole purpose of taking into account future developments on wholesale energy markets.\n2. The regulations referred to in paragraph 1 shall take into account at least:\n(a) the specific functioning of wholesale energy markets, including the specificities of electricity and gas markets, and the interaction between commodity markets and derivative markets;\n(b) the potential for manipulation across borders, between electricity and gas markets and across commodity markets and derivative markets;\n(c) the potential impact on wholesale energy market prices of actual or planned production, consumption, use of transmission, or use of storage capacity; and\n(d) network codes and framework guidelines adopted in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 714/2009 before 1 January 2020 and network codes and framework guidelines adopted, or regulations made, under the Gas Regulation and Electricity Regulation.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 6(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Electricity and Gas (Powers to Make Subordinate Legislation) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1286), regs. 1(2)(b), 17(2)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in Art. 6(1)(a) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Electricity and Gas (Powers to Make Subordinate Legislation) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1286), regs. 1(2)(b), 17(2)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in Art. 6(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Electricity and Gas (Powers to Make Subordinate Legislation) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1286), regs. 1(2)(b), 17(3)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Art. 6(2)(d) substituted (31.12.2020) by S.I. 2018/1286, regs. 1(2)(b), 17(3)(b) (as substituted by The Electricity and Gas etc. (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1016), regs. 1(2), 2(6)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2011/1227/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:49:43.807968+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."
}