This Change Proposal seeks to introduce an economic incentive scheme for the Centralised Registration Service (CRS) Provider through the introduction of Service Provider Performance Charges linked to performance against service levels defined in the REC.

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This change seeks to standardise Electricity Enquiry Service (EES) data access permissions across EES User Categories via a review and to update to the Data Access Matrix (DAM).

This change has been raised as the Code Manager is pausing the requirement for provision of Distribution Network Operator and Gas Transporter complaints data, to allow further engagement to take place with Parties to identify a pragmatic and proportionate approach to provide REC-relevant only data that meets GDPR data minimisation principles. To be prudent in protecting all REC Parties we will extend the pause to cover all meter point level complaints data, including those of Suppliers. ***********The first reporting date in the PARC has therefore been updated for items 90, 91 and 100 (meter point level complaints data) to suspend the requirement to provide data subject to further engagement regarding GDPR data minimisation. This will be implemented on 16 December 2021, in line the existing Category 3 PARC change (C3-0014).

Currently only the Registered Supplier can instruct a Metering Equipment Manager (MEM) to work on their metering asset. There is no ability to request that a single MEM completes work on multiple properties that may have different Electricity Suppliers. This creates barriers to developing solutions for local authorities, private and social housing landlords who are refurbishing premises or to help any premise owner (whether domestic or non-domestic) install new equipment to facilitate Low & Zero Carbon Technology (LZCT) installation such as the retro-fit of Electric Vehicle Charging (EVC) Points to homes and business premises. This Change Proposal will introduce a new role for existing accredited MEMs that will enable them to accept instructions to undertake a limited set of activities at the request of the premise owners without the need to use the Registered Suppliers’ MEMs.

Since raising the Category 3 change, feedback has been received from Parties related to two minor errors that need to be corrected. The following amendments will therefore be made to the PARC prior to implementation: ***Update to the 'Required/Optional' field for items 660-770 following the addition of a ‘Conditional Mandatory’ option, accounting for fields that are only mandatory if the associated group is present. ***Update to the Group noted against field ‘Meter Mechanism Code’ for item 670, from Group ‘Meter Point’ to ‘Meter’, and field ‘Meter Type Code’ for item 680, from Group ‘Asset’ to ‘Meter’. *****************This Category 3 Change Proposal has been raised to implement updates to the PARC. The focus of these updates is on improvements to usability, some clarifications and minor amendments and also the removal of some data items. There has been one addition to the PARC, which has been made following engagement with Gas Network Distributors (GDNs). **************************Usability updates: - Updated data submission guidance on 'Cover' tab - Column added to 'Report Catalogue' tab detailing the date of which each item is first required to be submitted - Column 'Domestic / Non-Domestic Only?' removed from the 'Report Catalogue' tab and replaced by individual columns 'Domestic', 'Micro-Business' and 'Commercial' - Collation of the Report Catalogue with the document 'PARC Other Data Collection Details', which provided further detail on the data items received from ElectraLink and Xoserve. This has resulted in the addition of three new tabs: 'Other Data Collection - Cover', 'ElectraLink Data Items' and 'Xoserve Data Items'. ************************Clarifications and minor amendments, including: - Update to the columns required within tabs '610'-'640' following further discussion with PPMIPs, inclusion of a header block - Clarification to the RGMA group each field specified within each of tabs '660-770' - Removal of field 'Meter Mechanism Code' from tab 700 (Content provided within RGMA flow - ORDET) - Addition of field 'Last Vend Date' to data specification on tab '850' - Splitting of the PPMIP Unallicated Transaction reports into electricity and gas items, resuling in the new line #1315 (PPMIP Unallocated Transaction Report - Electricity) - Update to 'Pre-Existing' and 'Domestic/Non-domestic Only' for #1330 (SMIS Survey Data); addition of guidance on templates to be used - Addition of tab '1340 - Commercial', detailing the submission guidance for the Commercial version of #1340 - Update 'Pre-Existing' and 'Prepayment Meters Only' for #1380 (SMETS1 Monthly Transaction Data), and addition of guidance to where the templates can be downloaded from the Portal - Update to 'Description' of #1430 (Gaining Supplier Switching Data) within the 'Report Catalogue' tab; comment added to provide clearer guidance on field 'Read Type Used' within tab '1430' ******************** Addition and removal of data items, including: - Removal of #80 (Energy Ombudsman Complaints Data) - Addition of new item #91 GDN Complaints Data, covering the complaints data submission requirements for Gas Distribution Networks (replacing item #90 for Gas Distribution Networks) - Removal of #650 (Content provided within PP10 - Change of Tariff Proforma) following further discussion with PPMIPs - Removal of #860 (Smart Meter Technical Detail (MTD) Report) - Removal of #1250 (PPMIP Change of Tariff Global Report) following further discussion with PPMIPs - Rename of data #1450 (AMICOP Scheme Auditor Reports) and removal of #1470 (MAMCOP Scheme Auditor Reports) as both are now covered under '1450 MCoP Scheme Auditor Reports'

Minor changes to the user guide have been identified following the receipt of stakeholder feedback: • The opening sentence on Slide 4 previously referred to the Theft Assessment Methodology indicating the likely scale of Electricity Theft but it is meant to be referring to the likely scale of Theft across both fuels. Hence, ‘electricity theft’ has been changed as per the attached to ‘energy theft’ • The Venn diagram on Slide 9 gave the impression that a Supplier’s theft performance was based on a consideration of their overall theft investigation performance rather than their proportion of the confirmed thefts submitted. Hence, the wording has been changed from ‘total number of tip offs’ to ‘potential instances of energy theft’, again, outlined in red.

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