1. A national authority may, by regulations, amend this Regulation in order to:

(a) align the definitions set out in points (1), (2), (3) and (5) of Article 2 for the purpose of ensuring coherence with other relevant legislation in the fields of financial services and energy; and

(b) update those definitions for the sole purpose of taking into account future developments on wholesale energy markets.

2. The regulations referred to in paragraph 1 shall take into account at least:

(a) the specific functioning of wholesale energy markets, including the specificities of electricity and gas markets, and the interaction between commodity markets and derivative markets;

(b) the potential for manipulation across borders, between electricity and gas markets and across commodity markets and derivative markets;

(c) the potential impact on wholesale energy market prices of actual or planned production, consumption, use of transmission, or use of storage capacity; and