Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/1162

means a permission that has not been revoked or expired;

means an electronic procedure that enables the electronic identification of a natural or legal person;

means a timestamped record of data items accessed that includes at least the identification of the final customer or the eligible party accessing the data and, if applicable, the identification of the permission used to access the data;

means a party responsible for facilitating access, including in cooperation with other parties, to validated historical metering and consumption data by the final customer or by eligible parties;

means an entity offering energy-related services to final customers, such as suppliers, transmission and distribution system operators, delegated operators and other third parties, aggregators, energy service companies, renewable energy communities, citizen energy communities and balancing service providers, as far as they offer energy related services to final customers;

means data that is covered by the permission but not available at that point in time and in most cases because it is made available in the future.

means a party that manages identity information;

means a party responsible for installing, maintaining, testing, and decommissioning physical meters;

means a party responsible for storing validated historical metering and consumption data and distributing these data to final customers and/or eligible parties;

means meter readings of electricity consumption from the grid, or electricity fed into the grid, or consumption from on-site generation facilities which are connected to the grid, and includes validated historical data and non-validated near-real time data;

means a party responsible for administering and making available the characteristics of a metering point, including the registrations of eligible parties and final customers linked to the metering point;

means a system or device that obtains the flow of non-validated near real-time data from a smart metering system as referred to in Article 20, first subparagraph, point (a) of Directive (EU) 2019/944.

means metering and consumption data provided continuously by a smart meter or a smart metering system in a short time period, usually down to seconds or up to the imbalance settlement period in the national market, which is non-validated and made available through a standardised interface or through remote access in line with Article 20(a) of the Electricity Directive (EU) 2019/944;

means the authorisation given by a final customer for an eligible party on the basis of a contractual agreement they have with this party, to access their metering and consumption data managed by the metered data administrator for the provision of a specific service;

means a party responsible for administering a register of data access permissions for a set of metering points, making this information available to final customers and eligible parties in the sector, on request;

means a timestamped record of when the permission for a an eligible party or final customer was granted, revoked, or terminated, including a permission identifier, and a party identifier;

means the procedures that are necessary for access to data describing the minimum required information exchange between market participants;

means an electronic metering device deployed within a smart metering system as defined in the Article 2(23) of the Directive (EU) 2019/944;

means historical metering and consumption data collected from a meter, a conventional meter or a smart meter, or a smart metering system, or completed with substitute values that are determined otherwise in case of meter unavailability;