34It follows from those provisions that systems such as those at issue in the main proceedings, put into place for the purposes of own consumption and operated by a private person, and to which a limited number of generation and consumption units are connected, constitute distribution systems falling within the scope of Directive 2009/72, since the competent national authorities may classify them as a closed distribution system within the meaning of Article 28(1) of that directive, and the Member States have, furthermore, only the option, but not the obligation, to exempt them, in accordance with Article 28(2) of the directive, from the two requirements referred to in that provision.
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