accounting pointmeans a metering point or a virtual metering point under the responsibility of a balance responsible party, where the energy supply is provided by an energy supplier, the settlement is performed, and the energy supplier switch can take place;
affected partymeans a market participant who gains or loses responsibility for the accounting point concerned as a direct result of a process in the retail market or the cancellation of that process;
authenticationmeans authentication as defined in point (16) of Article 2 of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/1162;
balance responsible partymeans balance responsible party as defined in point (14) of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) 2019/943 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
electricity supply contractmeans a contract for the supply of electricity, but does not include electricity derivatives, as defined in point (13) of Article 2 of Directive (EU) 2019/944;
entitled partymeans a market participant that is to be informed about changes made in the metering point register by the metering point administrator, or the delegated entity where Member States have so provided, as a result of a process in the retail market or the cancellation of that process;
final customermeans final customer as defined in point (3) of Article 2 of Directive (EU) 2019/944;
future suppliermeans a supplier that is already registered in the metering point register for an accounting point for a specified time period in the future.
metered data administratormeans metered data administrator as defined in point (7) of Article 2 of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/1162;
metering pointmeans a physical location where the withdrawal or injection of electrical quantities is measured or calculated;
metering point administratormeans metering point administrator as defined in point (12) of Article 2 of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/1162;
permissionmeans permission as defined in point (8) of Article 2 of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/1162;
permission administratormeans permission administrator as defined in point (10) of Article 2 of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/1162;
reference modelmeans reference model as defined in point (1) of Article 2 of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/1162;
supplymeans supply as defined in point (12) of Article 2 of Directive (EU) 2019/944;