{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-943/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-943/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2019/943",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EU) 2019/943 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 June 2019 on the internal market for electricity (recast) (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-943",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Subject matter and scope",
  "text": "This Regulation aims to:\n(a)...\n(b)set fundamental principles for well-functioning, integrated electricity markets, which allow all resource providers and electricity customers non-discriminatory market access, empower consumers, ensure competitiveness on the global market as well as demand response, energy storage and energy efficiency, and facilitate aggregation of distributed demand and supply, and enable market and sectoral integration and market-based remuneration of electricity generated from renewable sources;\n(c)set fair rules for cross-border exchanges in electricity . This involves setting the principles on cross-border transmission charges and the allocation of available capacity of interconnections between the transmission systems of Great Britain and the transmission systems of other countries or territories;\n(d)facilitate the emergence of a well-functioning and transparent wholesale market, contributing to a high level of security of electricity supply ....",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 1(a) 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. 4 para. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 1(c) 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. 4 para. 1(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 1(d) 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. 4 para. 1(4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2019/943/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:43:20.321785+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."
}