Category A Situation	means a situation in which the Company's Electric Lines or Electrical Plant does (or is likely to) pose a danger, including danger of death of or injury to persons and/or danger of damage to or destruction of property.
Category B Situation	means a situation in which the condition of the Company's Electric Lines or Electrical Plant prevents metering work from being carried out or prevents a meter from being exchanged but where the situation is not a Category A Situation.
Category C Situation	means an issue with the Company's Electric Lines or Electrical Plant that is neither a Category A Situation nor a Category B Situation.
CCCM	means the common connection charging methodology set out in Schedule 22 (Common Connection Charging Methodology). As described in that Schedule, the CCCM only comprises part of the connection charging methodology that each DNO Party is obliged to have in force under its Distribution Licence.
CDCM	means the common distribution charging methodology for determining certain of the Use of System Charges of the DNO Parties that are to be recovered pursuant to Section 2A, Section 2B, and the Relevant Charging Statements, as set out in Schedule 16 (Common Distribution Charging Methodology).
CDCA	means the Central Data Collection Agent as defined in the Balancing and Settlement Code.
Central Switching Service or CSS	has the meaning given to that term in the REC.
Change Proposal	has the meaning given to that term in Clause 10.1.
Change Register	has the meaning given to that term in Clause 11.25.
Change Report	has the meaning given to that term in Clause 11.19.
Charges	means, in respect of Section 2A, the Use of System Charges and the Other Charges, and, in respect of Section 2B, those charges referred to in Clause 43.2 (which in the case of Clause 43.2, for the avoidance of doubt, includes both Use of System Charges and Transactional Charges).
Charging Methodologies	means each of the CDCM, the EDCM and the CCCM.
Charging Objectives	has the meaning given to that term in Clause 3.2.
Citizens Advice	means the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux (a company incorporated in England and Wales with company number 1436945).
Citizens Advice Scotland	means the Scottish Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux (a company incorporated in Scotland with company number SC089892).
CMRS	means the Central Meter Registration Service as defined in the Balancing and Settlement Code.
Code Administration Code of Practice	means the code of that name approved by the Authority as amended and/or re-published with the Authority's approval from time to time.
Company	has; in respect of Section 2A, the meaning given to that term in Clause 15.1; in respect of Section 2B, the meaning given to that term in Clause 36.1; in respect of Section 2C, the meaning given to that term in Clause 52A.1; in respect of Section 2D, the meaning given to that term in Clause 52G.4. in respect of Section 2E, the meaning given to that term in Clause 52M.1; in respect of Section 2F, the meaning given to that term in Clause 52Q.4; in respect of Section 2G, the meaning given to that term in Clause 52V.1; and in respect of Section 2H, the meaning given to that term in Clause 52Y.1;
Competent Authority	means the Secretary of State, the Authority, and any local or national agency, authority, department, inspectorate, minister, ministry, official or public or statutory person (whether autonomous or not) of the government of the United Kingdom or of the European Union insofar as it is acting within the limits of its proper authority.
Competent Person	has the meaning given to that term in Schedule 5.
Connect	means, in respect of Section 2B, to provide Connection Assets in such a way that, subject to Energisation and the terms of this Agreement and the relevant Bilateral Connection Agreement, electricity may flow between the Distribution System of the Company and the System of the User across the Connection Point. or series of related Connection Points (such related Connection Points to be identified in the relevant Bilateral Connection Agreement), and cognate expressions shall be construed accordingly.
Connection and Use of System Code or CUSC	means the Connection and Use of System Code (and the CUSC Framework Agreement) established pursuant to the National Electricity Transmission System Operator Licence.
Connectee	means, in respect of: Section 2A, 2C, 2D, 2E or 2F and a Customer Installation, the relevant Customer; Section 2A and a Generator Installation, the relevant Generator; Section 2A and a User Installation, the User; and Section 2B, a person whose premises are connected to the Company's Distribution System or a person whose premises are connected to the User's System (as determined in accordance with Clause 36.4).
Connected Installation	means a Customer Installation, a Generator Installation or a User Installation (as the case may be).
Connection Agreement	means an agreement between a Company and a Connectee which provides that that Connectee has the right for its Connected Installation to be and remain directly or indirectly connected to that Company's Distribution System.
Connection Assets	means those assets, including the Company's Connection Equipment, that are operated and maintained by the Company, and which are provided for the sole use of Connecting the User's System to the Company's Distribution System.
Connection Equipment	means any Electrical Plant and/or Electric Line which is provided and installed at the Connection Point for the purposes of providing a connection between the Company's Distribution System and the User's System, as specified in the relevant Bilateral Connection Agreement and (where appropriate) illustrated on the diagram annexed thereto.
Connection Point	means a point at which the Distribution System of the Company Connects to the System of the User via the Connection Equipment, such point being specified in the relevant Bilateral Connection Agreement.
Consequential Change	means either (as the context requires) a Change Proposal under this Agreement or a variation to another Energy Code, which (in either case) the Cross Code Steering Group has designated as such, and which the Cross Code Steering Group considers would be necessary to give full and timely effect to a variation under a different Energy Code (if that variation was approved).
Consolidated Theft Processes	means the processes and procedures governed by this Agreement that are, on Energy Theft Consolidation, to become subject to the Retail Energy Code, as set out in the Theft Arrangements Schedule to the Retail Energy Code.
Consumer Body	means (as the context requires) either or both of Citizens Advice and/or Citizens Advice Scotland
Contract	means a Supply Contract or a Power Purchase Contract.
Contract Manager	has the meaning given to that term in Clause 60.5.
Cost Contribution	has the meaning given to that term in Clause 8.9.
Cover	has the meaning given to that term in Schedule 1.
CRA	means the Central Registration Agent as defined in the Balancing and Settlement Code.
Cross Code Steering Group	means the group of that name described in the Change Management Schedule to the Retail Energy Code.
Crowded Meter Room Coordinator	means Alt HAN Company Limited (a company incorporated in England and Wales with company number 10002859).
Crowded Meter Room Works	means works which are reasonably required to maximise the available space within a meter room or meter cupboard, in order to enable the installation of Relevant Alt HAN Equipment and/or Smart Metering Systems, including: De-energising an Entry/Exit Point; repositioning meters, cabling, local points of isolation and customer isolation switches; removing and disposing of inhibitive trunking and cable trays; removing and disposing of redundant equipment; and/or Re-energising an Entry/Exit Point that was previously De-energised by or on behalf of the Crowded Meter Room Coordinator.
CSS Provider	has the meaning given to that term in the REC.
CT	indicates metering which uses current transformers to induce a reference current which then passes through the meter (as compared to non-CT or whole current metering, where the full electrical current passes through the meter).
CUSC Framework Agreement	means the agreement of that name, in the form approved by the Secretary of State, by which the CUSC is made contractually binding between the parties to it.
Customer	means: in respect of Section 2A, a person to whom a User proposes to supply, or for the time being supplies, electricity through an Exit Point, or from whom a User, or any Relevant Exempt Supplier, is entitled to recover charges, compensation or an account of profits in respect of electricity supplied through an Exit Point; in respect of Section 2B, any owner or occupier of premises in Great Britain who is supplied or requires to be supplied with electricity, and includes an electricity supplier when acting on behalf of such a person; and in respect of Section 2C, 2D, 2E, 2F, 2G or 2H, any owner or occupier of premises in Great Britain who is supplied or requires to be supplied with electricity.
Customer Installation	means any structures, equipment, lines, appliances or devices used or to be used by a Customer and connected or to be connected directly or indirectly to the Distribution System.
CVA Metering System	has the meaning given to that term in the Balancing and Settlement Code.
CVA Registrant	means a Party that: is a BSC Party; is registered in respect of a CVA Metering System that is connected directly to a Distribution System; and does not hold a Distribution Licence, and, for the avoidance of doubt, a Party may be both a CVA Registrant and a Supplier Party.

SECTION 1.A - PRELIMINARY