{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/utilities-contracts-scotland-regulations-2006/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/utilities-contracts-scotland-regulations-2006/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2006/2",
  "legislation_title": "The Utilities Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/utilities-contracts-scotland-regulations-2006",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Economic operators",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations, an “economic operator” means a contractor, a supplier or a services provider.\n(2) When these Regulations apply a utility shall not treat a person who is not a national of a relevant State and established in a relevant State more favourably than one who is.\n(3) A utility shall–\n(a) treat economic operators equally and without discrimination; and\n(b) act in a transparent and proportionate manner\n(4) In these Regulations a relevant State is a member State or a State listed in column 1 of Schedule 4; the agreements with the European Union by which the provisions in relation to public procurement are extended to those States are specified in column 2 to that Schedule and the statutory provision designating them as European Treaties under section 1(3) of the European Communities Act 1972 is specified in column 3 of that Schedule.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1972 c. 68."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2011/1043",
      "affecting_title": "The Treaty of Lisbon (Changes in Terminology) Order 2011"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2006/2/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:22:06.422881+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."
}