{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-1388/article-51",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-1388/article-51.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/51",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "51",
  "heading": "General provisions",
  "text": "1. Subject to paragraph 2, the regulatory authority’s published criteria for granting derogations pursuant to Articles 52 and 53 which applied immediately before IP completion day continue to apply on and after IP completion day, and the regulatory authority must continue to publish those criteria (including any subsequent amendments) on its website.\n2. If the regulatory authority deems that it is necessary due to a change in circumstances relating to the evolution of system requirements, it may review and amend at most once every year the criteria for granting derogations after consulting relevant system operators, power generating facility owners and other stakeholders who it considers may be affected by this Regulation. Any changes to the criteria shall not apply to derogations for which a request has already been made.\n3. The regulatory authority may decide that transmission-connected demand facilities, transmission-connected distribution facilities, distribution systems and demand units for which a request for a derogation has been filed pursuant to Articles 52 or 53 do not need to comply with the requirements of this Regulation from which a derogation has been sought from the day of filing the request until the regulatory authority's decision is issued.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 51(1) 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. 17(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 51(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. 17(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2016/1388/article/51",
    "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."
}