TITLE I

GENERAL PROVISIONS

Definitions
Article 2
Except where stated in this Article, for the purposes of this Regulation, the definitions 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 and Article 3 of Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/1485 apply.
The following definitions shall also apply:
1. ‘balancing’ means all actions and processes, on all timelines, through which TSOs ensure, in a continuous way, the maintenance of system frequency within a predefined stability range as set out in Article 127 of Regulation (EU) 2017/1485, and compliance with the amount of reserves needed with respect to the required quality, as set out in Part IV Title V, Title VI and Title VII of Regulation (EU) 2017/1485;
2. ‘balancing market’ means the entirety of institutional, commercial and operational arrangements that establish market-based management of balancing;
3. ‘balancing services’ means balancing energy or balancing capacity, or both;
4. ‘balancing energy’ means energy used by TSOs to perform balancing and provided by a balancing service provider;
5. ‘balancing capacity’ means a volume of reserve capacity that a balancing service provider has agreed to hold and in respect to which the balancing service provider has agreed to submit bids for a corresponding volume of balancing energy to the TSO for the duration of the contract;
6. ‘balancing service provider’ means a market participant with reserve-providing units or reserve-providing groups able to provide balancing services to TSOs;
7. ‘balance responsible party’ means a market participant or its chosen representative responsible for its imbalances;
8. ‘imbalance’ means an energy volume calculated for a balance responsible party and representing the difference between the allocated volume attributed to that balance responsible party and the final position of that balance responsible party, including any imbalance adjustment applied to that balance responsible party, within a given imbalance settlement period;
9. ‘imbalance settlement’ means a financial settlement mechanism for charging or paying balance responsible parties for their imbalances;
10. ‘imbalance settlement period’ means the time unit for which balance responsible parties' imbalance is calculated;
11. ‘imbalance area’ means the area in which an imbalance is calculated;
12. ‘imbalance price’ means the price, be it positive, zero or negative, in each imbalance settlement period for an imbalance in each direction;
13. ‘imbalance price area’ means the area for the calculation of an imbalance price;
14. ‘imbalance adjustment’ means an energy volume representing the balancing energy from a balancing service provider and applied by the connecting TSO for an imbalance settlement period to the concerned balance responsible parties, used for the calculation of the imbalance of these balance responsible parties;
15. ‘allocated volume’ means an energy volume physically injected or withdrawn from the system and attributed to a balance responsible party, for the calculation of the imbalance of that balance responsible party;
16. ‘position’ means the declared energy volume of a balance responsible party used for the calculation of its imbalance;
17. ‘self-dispatching model’ means a scheduling and dispatching model where the generation schedules and consumption schedules as well as dispatching of power generating facilities and demand facilities are determined by the scheduling agents of those facilities;
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22. ‘connecting TSO’ means the TSO that operates the scheduling area in which balancing service providers and balance responsible parties shall be compliant with the terms and conditions related to balancing;
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26. ‘transfer of balancing capacity’ means a transfer of balancing capacity from the initially contracted balancing service provider to another balancing service provider;
27. ‘balancing energy gate closure time’ means the point in time when submission or update of a balancing energy bid ... is no longer permitted;
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33. ‘validity period’ means the period when the balancing energy bid offered by the balancing service provider can be activated, where all the characteristics of the product are respected. The validity period is defined by a start time and an end time;
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46. “
day-ahead market gate closure time
” has the meaning given in Article 2 of Commission Regulation (EU) 2015/1222, as it applied in EU law immediately before IP completion day;
47. “
day-ahead market time frame
” has the meaning given in Article 2 of Commission Regulation (EU) 2015/1222, as it applied in EU law immediately before IP completion day;
48. “
demand facility
” has the meaning given in Article 2 of Commission Regulation (EU) 2016/1388, as it applied in EU law immediately before IP completion day;
Words in Art. 2 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Electricity Network Codes and Guidelines (Markets and Trading) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/532), reg. 1(1), Sch. 2 para. 3(2) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1016, regs. 1(2), 5(5)(a)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
Art. 2(46)-(48) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Electricity Network Codes and Guidelines (Markets and Trading) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/532), reg. 1(1), Sch. 2 para. 3(3)(d) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1006, regs. 1(2), 2(2) and S.I. 2020/1016, regs. 1(2), 5(5)(b)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
Words in Art. 2(27) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Electricity Network Codes and Guidelines (Markets and Trading) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/532), reg. 1(1), Sch. 2 para. 3(3)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
Art. 2(18)-(21) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Electricity Network Codes and Guidelines (Markets and Trading) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/532), reg. 1(1), Sch. 2 para. 3(3)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
Art. 2(23)-(25) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Electricity Network Codes and Guidelines (Markets and Trading) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/532), reg. 1(1), Sch. 2 para. 3(3)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
Art. 2(28)-(32) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Electricity Network Codes and Guidelines (Markets and Trading) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/532), reg. 1(1), Sch. 2 para. 3(3)(c); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
Art. 2(34)-(45) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Electricity Network Codes and Guidelines (Markets and Trading) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/532), reg. 1(1), Sch. 2 para. 3(3)(c); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)