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The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) (Registries and Fees etc.) Regulations 2011
Climate and weather
European Parliament
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King's Printer of Acts of Parliament
2024-05-14
CLIMATE CHANGE
These Regulations amend the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme Regulations 2005 (“the 2005 Regulations”) to give effect to Commission Regulation (EU) No 920/2010 of 7th October 2010 for a standardised and secured system of registries pursuant to Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and Decision No 280/2004/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (“the Registries Regulation”). They also to amend the powers of the Environment Agency, Scottish Environmental Protection Agency and Department of the Environment in Northern Ireland to enable them to impose charges by means of charging schemes in respect of various functions in relation to the operation of emissions trading registries, the regulation of aviation activities under the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (“the EU ETS”). The regulations also enable the Environment Agency to making charging schemes in relation to its functions in respect of the approval of project activities established under the Kyoto Protocol or for authorisation to participate in such project activities.
SCHEDULE
Amendments to the 2005 Regulations11
In regulation 22C (Power to withhold allowances), in paragraphs (4), (5) and (6), for “Article 42 or 48” substitute “Article 40(1) or 40(3)”.