{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-631/article-71",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-631/article-71.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2016/631",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EU) 2016/631 of 14 April 2016 establishing a network code on requirements for grid connection of generators (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-631",
  "path": "article/71",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "71",
  "heading": "Amendment of contracts and general terms and conditions",
  "text": "1. The regulatory authority shall ensure that all relevant clauses in contracts and general terms and conditions relating to the grid connection of new power-generating modules are brought into compliance with the requirements of this Regulation.\n2. All relevant clauses in contracts and relevant clauses of general terms and conditions relating to the grid connection of existing power-generating modules subject to all or some of the requirements of this Regulation in accordance with Article 4(1) shall be amended in order to comply with the requirements of this Regulation. The relevant clauses shall be amended within three years following the decision of the regulatory authority ... as referred to in Article 4(1).\n3. The regulatory authority shall ensure that ... agreements between system operators and owners of new or existing power-generating facilities subject to this Regulation and relating to grid connection requirements for power-generating facilities, in particular in industry codes, reflect the requirements set out in this Regulation.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 71(1) substituted (E.W.S.) (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. 1 para. 40(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 71(2) omitted (E.W.S.) (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. 1 para. 40(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 71(3) substituted (E.W.S.) (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. 1 para. 40(4)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in Art. 71(3) omitted (E.W.S.) (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. 1 para. 40(4)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Art. 71(3) substituted (E.W.S.) (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. 1 para. 40(4)(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2016/631/article/71",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:45:52.872772+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."
}