EMPS 1.1 Application and purpose

This special guide is for energy market participants.

The purpose of this special guide is to help prospective and actual energy market participants find their way around the Handbook by setting out which parts of it apply to them and by setting out a form of waiver that the FCA will be minded to grant to energy market participants.

1The reader should note that an energy market participant is defined to exclude a number of different categories of firm, including any MiFID investment firm.