{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2017-2196/article-3",
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  "legislation": "eur/2017/2196",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/2196 of 24 November 2017 establishing a network code on electricity emergency and restoration (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2017-2196",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Definitions",
  "text": "Except where stated in this Article, for the purposes of this Regulation, the definitions provided for in ... Article 2 of Regulation (EU) 2019/943 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 June 2019 on the internal market for electricity (recast), Article 2 of Commission Regulation (EU) No 543/2013, ... Article 2 of Regulation (EU) 2016/631, Article 2 of Commission Regulation (EU) 2016/1388, Article 2 of Regulation (EU) 2016/1447 ... and Article 2 of Regulation (EU) 2017/1485 shall apply.\nIn addition, the following definitions shall apply:\n(1)‘defence service provider’ means a legal entity with a legal or contractual obligation to provide a service contributing to one or several measures of the system defence plan;\n(2)‘restoration service provider’ means a legal entity with a legal or contractual obligation to provide a service contributing to one or several measures of the restoration plan;\n(3)‘high priority significant grid user’ means the significant grid user for which special conditions apply for disconnection and re-energisation;\n(4)‘netted demand’ means the netted value of active power seen from a given point of the system, computed as (load — generation), generally expressed in kilowatts (kW) or megawatts (MW), at a given instant or averaged over any designated interval of time;\n(5)‘restoration plan’ means all technical and organisational measures necessary for the restoration of the system back to normal state;\n(6)‘re-energisation’ means reconnecting generation and load to energise the parts of the system that have been disconnected;\n(7)‘top-down re-energisation strategy’ means a strategy that requires the assistance of other TSOs to re-energise parts of the system of a TSO;\n(8)‘bottom-up re-energisation strategy’ means a strategy where part of the system of a TSO can be re-energised without the assistance from other TSOs;\n(9)‘resynchronisation’ means synchronising and connecting again two synchronised regions at the resynchronisation point;\n(10)‘frequency leader’ means the TSO appointed and responsible for managing the system frequency within a synchronised region or a synchronous area in order to restore system frequency back to the nominal frequency;\n(11)‘synchronised region’ means the fraction of a synchronous area covered by interconnected TSOs with a common system frequency and which is not synchronised with the rest of the synchronous area;\n(12)‘resynchronisation leader’ means the TSO appointed and responsible for the resynchronisation of two synchronised regions;\n(13)‘resynchronisation point’ means the device used to connect two synchronised regions, usually a circuit breaker.\n(15)“SGU” or “significant grid user” means an electricity grid user of a kind specified in Article 2(1) of Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/1485.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 3 inserted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Electricity Network Codes and Guidelines (System Operation and Connection) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/533), reg. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 4(3)(a) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1006, regs. 1(2), 3(3)(b) and S.I. 2020/1016, regs. 1(2), 6(2)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 3 omitted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Electricity Network Codes and Guidelines (System Operation and Connection) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/533), reg. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 4(3)(b) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1006, regs. 1(2), 3(3)(b) and S.I. 2020/1016, regs. 1(2), 6(2)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 3 substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Electricity Network Codes and Guidelines (System Operation and Connection) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/533), reg. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 4(3)(ba) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1016, regs. 1(2), 6(2)(4)(b)(ii)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Art. 3 omitted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Electricity Network Codes and Guidelines (System Operation and Connection) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/533), reg. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 4(3)(c) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1006, regs. 1(2), 3(3)(c) and S.I. 2020/1016, regs. 1(2), 6(2)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Art. 3 omitted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Electricity Network Codes and Guidelines (System Operation and Connection) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/533), reg. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 4(3)(d) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1006, regs. 1(2), 3(3)(c) and S.I. 2020/1016, regs. 1(2), 6(2)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Art. 3(15) inserted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Electricity Network Codes and Guidelines (System Operation and Connection) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/533), reg. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 4(4) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1006, regs. 1(2), 3(3)(d) and S.I. 2020/1016, regs. 1(2), 6(2)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "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 (OJ L 163, 15.6.2013, p. 1)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Commission Regulation (EU) 2016/1388 of 17 August 2016 establishing a network code on demand connection (OJ L 223, 18.8.2016, p. 10)."
    }
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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