Regulation 4 Offences of market manipulation in wholesale energy products
(1) It is an offence for a person to enter into a transaction or issue an order to trade in relevant wholesale energy products where -
(a) the person entered into the transaction or issued the order with the intention that the action would give false or misleading signals as to the supply of, or demand for, or price of relevant wholesale energy products, or
(b) the person was reckless as to whether entering into the transaction or issuing the order would give such false or misleading signals,
as prohibited by Article 5 of REMIT when read with Article 2(2)(a)(i) or Article 2(2)(a)(iii).
(2) It is an offence for a person to enter into a transaction or issue an order to trade in relevant wholesale energy products where -
(a) the person entered into the transaction or issued the order with the intention that the action would secure (by one person or a number of persons acting in collaboration) the price of relevant wholesale energy products at an artificial level, or