{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-1388/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-1388/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2016/1388",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EU) 2016/1388 of 17 August 2016 establishing a Network Code on Demand Connection (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-1388",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Subject matter",
  "text": "1. This Regulation establishes a network code which lays down the requirements for grid connection of:\n(a) transmission-connected demand facilities;\n(b) transmission-connected distribution facilities;\n(c) distribution systems, including closed distribution systems;\n(d) demand units, used by a demand facility or a closed distribution system to provide demand response services to relevant system operators and relevant TSOs.\n2. This Regulation, therefore, helps to ensure fair conditions of competition in electricity markets, to ensure system security and the integration of renewable electricity sources, and to facilitate ... trade in electricity.\n3. This Regulation also lays down the obligations for ensuring that system operators make appropriate use of the demand facilities' and distribution systems' capabilities in a transparent and non-discriminatory manner ....",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 1(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Electricity and Gas (Internal Markets and Network Codes) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1006), reg. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 1(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in Art. 1(2) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Electricity and Gas (Internal Markets and Network Codes) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1006), reg. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 1(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 1(3) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Electricity and Gas (Internal Markets and Network Codes) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1006), reg. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 1(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2016/1388/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:45:37.269760+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."
}