What changed, Directive (EU) 2019/944

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− | (1) | ‘customer’ means a wholesale or final customer of electricity; |
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− | (2) | ‘wholesale customer’ means a natural or legal person who purchases electricity for the purpose of resale inside or outside the system where that person is established; |
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− | (3) | ‘final customer’ means a customer who purchases electricity for own use; |
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− | (4) | ‘household customer’ means a customer who purchases electricity for the customer's own household consumption, excluding commercial or professional activities; |
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− | (5) | ‘non-household customer’ means a natural or legal person who purchases electricity that is not for own household use, including producers, industrial customers, small and medium-sized enterprises, businesses and wholesale customers; |
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− | (6) | ‘microenterprise’ means an enterprise which employs fewer than 10 persons and whose annual turnover and/or annual balance sheet total does not exceed EUR 2 million; |
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− | (7) | ‘small enterprise’ means an enterprise which employs fewer than 50 persons and whose annual turnover and/or annual balance sheet total does not exceed EUR 10 million; |
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− | (8) | ‘active customer’ means a final customer, or a group of jointly acting final customers, who consumes or stores electricity generated within its premises located within confined boundaries or, where permitted by a Member State, within other premises, or who sells self-generated electricity or…
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− | (9) | ‘electricity markets’ means markets for electricity, including over-the-counter markets and electricity exchanges, markets for the trading of energy, capacity, balancing and ancillary services in all timeframes, including forward, day-ahead and intraday markets; |
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− | (10) | ‘market participant’ means market participant as defined in point (25) of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) 2019/943; |
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− | (11) | ‘citizen energy community’ means a legal entity that:(a)is based on voluntary and open participation and is effectively controlled by members or shareholders that are natural persons, local authorities, including municipalities, or small enterprises;(b)has for its primary purpose to provide…
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− | (a) | is based on voluntary and open participation and is effectively controlled by members or shareholders that are natural persons, local authorities, including municipalities, or small enterprises; |
− | (b) | has for its primary purpose to provide environmental, economic or social community benefits to its members or shareholders or to the local areas where it operates rather than to generate financial profits; and |
− | (c) | may engage in generation, including from renewable sources, distribution, supply, consumption, aggregation, energy storage, energy efficiency services or charging services for electric vehicles or provide other energy services to its members or shareholders; |
− | (12) | ‘supply’ means the sale, including the resale, of electricity to customers; |
+ ## CHAPTER I — SUBJECT MATTER AND DEFINITIONS
+ ### Article 1 — Subject matter
+ ### Article 2 — Definitions
+ (1) ‘customer’ means a wholesale or final customer of electricity;
+ (2) ‘wholesale customer’ means a natural or legal person who purchases electricity for the purpose of resale inside or outside the system where that person is established;
+ (3) ‘final customer’ means a customer who purchases electricity for own use;
+ (4) ‘household customer’ means a customer who purchases electricity for the customer's own household consumption, excluding commercial or professional activities;
+ (5) ‘non-household customer’ means a natural or legal person who purchases electricity that is not for own household use, including producers, industrial customers, small and medium-sized enterprises, businesses and wholesale customers;
+ (6) ‘microenterprise’ means an enterprise which employs fewer than 10 persons and whose annual turnover and/or annual balance sheet total does not exceed EUR 2 million;
+ (7) ‘small enterprise’ means an enterprise which employs fewer than 50 persons and whose annual turnover and/or annual balance sheet total does not exceed EUR 10 million;
+ (8) ‘active customer’ means a final customer, or a group of jointly acting final customers, who consumes or stores electricity generated within its premises located within confined boundaries or, where permitted by a Member State, within other premises, or who sells self-generated electricity or par…
+ (9) ‘electricity markets’ means markets for electricity, including over-the-counter markets and electricity exchanges, markets for the trading of energy, capacity, balancing and ancillary services in all timeframes, including forward, day-ahead and intraday markets;
+ (10) ‘market participant’ means market participant as defined in point (25) of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) 2019/943;
+ (11) ‘citizen energy community’ means a legal entity that: (a) is based on voluntary and open participation and is effectively controlled by members or shareholders that are natural persons, local authorities, including municipalities, or small enterprises; (b) has for its primary purpose to provide…
+ (12) ‘supply’ means the sale, including the resale, of electricity to customers;
+ (13) ‘electricity supply contract’ means a contract for the supply of electricity, but does not include electricity derivatives;
+ (14) ‘electricity derivative’ means a financial instrument specified in point (5), (6) or (7) of Section C of Annex I to Directive 2014/65/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council (1), where that instrument relates to electricity;
+ (15) ‘dynamic electricity price contract’ means an electricity supply contract between a supplier and a final customer that reflects the price variation in the spot markets, including in the day-ahead and intraday markets, at intervals at least equal to the market settlement frequency;
+ (16) ‘contract termination fee’ means a charge or penalty imposed on customers by suppliers or market participants engaged in aggregation, for terminating an electricity supply or service contract;
+ (17) ‘switching-related fee’ means a charge or penalty for changing suppliers or market participants engaged in aggregation, including contract termination fees, that is directly or indirectly imposed on customers by suppliers, market participants engaged in aggregation or system operators;
+ (18) ‘aggregation’ means a function performed by a natural or legal person who combines multiple customer loads or generated electricity for sale, purchase or auction in any electricity market;
+ (19) ‘independent aggregator’ means a market participant engaged in aggregation who is not affiliated to the customer's supplier;
+ (20) ‘demand response’ means the change of electricity load by final customers from their normal or current consumption patterns in response to market signals, including in response to time-variable electricity prices or incentive payments, or in response to the acceptance of the final customer's bi…
+ (21) ‘billing information’ means the information provided on a final customer's bill, apart from a request for payment;
+ (22) ‘conventional meter’ means an analogue or electronic meter with no capability to both transmit and receive data;
+ (23) ‘smart metering system’ means an electronic system that is capable of measuring electricity fed into the grid or electricity consumed from the grid, providing more information than a conventional meter, and that is capable of transmitting and receiving data for information, monitoring and contr…
+ (24) ‘interoperability’ means, in the context of smart metering, the ability of two or more energy or communication networks, systems, devices, applications or components to interwork to exchange and use information in order to perform required functions;
+ (25) ‘imbalance settlement period’ means imbalance settlement period as defined in point (15) of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) 2019/943;
+ (26) ‘near real-time’ means, in the context of smart metering, a short time period, usually down to seconds or up to the imbalance settlement period in the national market;
+ (27) ‘best available techniques’ means, in the context of data protection and security in a smart metering environment, the most effective, advanced and practically suitable techniques for providing, in principle, the basis for complying with the Union data protection and security rules;