{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-543/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-543/article-6.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2013/543",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EU) No 543/2013 of 14 June 2013 on submission and publication of data in electricity markets and amending Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 714/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-543",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Information on total load",
  "text": "1. For their control areas, TSOs shall calculate and publish the following data ... for each bidding zone:\n(a) the total load per market time unit;\n(b) a day-ahead forecast of the total load per market time unit;\n(c) a week-ahead forecast of the total load for every day of the following week, which shall for each day include a maximum and a minimum load value;\n(d) a month-ahead forecast of the total load for every week of the following month, which shall include, for a given week, a maximum and a minimum load value;\n(e) a year-ahead forecast of the total load for every week of the following year, which shall for a given week include a maximum and a minimum load value.\n2. The information referred to:\n(a) in point (a) of paragraph 1 shall be published no later than one hour after the operating period;\n(b) in point (b) of paragraph 1 shall be published no later than two hours before the gate closure of the day-ahead market in the bidding zone and be updated when significant changes occur;\n(c) in point (c) of paragraph 1 shall be published each Friday no later than two hours before the gate closure of the day-ahead market in the bidding zone and be updated when significant changes occur;\n(d) in point (d) of paragraph 1 shall be published no later than one week before the delivery month and be updated when significant changes occur;\n(e) in point (e) of paragraph 1 shall be published no later than the 15th calendar day of the month before the year to which the data relates.\n3. Generation units located within a TSO’s control area shall provide that TSO with all the relevant information required to calculate the data referred to in point (a) of paragraph 1.\nGeneration units shall be considered as primary owners of the relevant information they provide.\n4. Distribution system operators (DSO), located within a TSO’s control area shall provide that TSO with all the relevant information required to calculate the data referred to in points (b) to (e) of paragraph 1.\nDSOs shall be considered as primary owners of the relevant information they provide.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in Art. 6(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Electricity and Gas (Market Integrity and Transparency) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/534), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 5(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 6(1) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Electricity and Gas (Market Integrity and Transparency) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/534), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 5(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2013/543/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:48:37.489104+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."
}