The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme Order 2020

PART 9Miscellaneous

Information notices

75.—(1) The UK ETS authority, a national authority or a regulator may, by giving a notice (an “information notice”) to a person, require the person to provide information for purposes connected with the exercise of functions under—

(a)this Order;

(b)the Monitoring and Reporting Regulation 2018;

(c)the Verification Regulation 2018.

(2) The information notice must set out—

(a)the information to be provided;

(b)the form in which the information must be provided;

(c)the period within which or the time when the information must be provided;

(d)the place where the information must be provided.

(3) The information that a person may be required to provide includes information that, although it is not in the person’s possession or it would not otherwise come into the person’s possession, is information that it is reasonable to require the person to obtain or compile for the purpose of complying with the information notice.

Crown application

76.—(1) This Order applies to the Crown.

(2) Articles 39 and 40 and Part 2 of Schedule 3 make specific provision relevant to their application to the Crown.

Transitional provisions

77.—(1) Schedule 11 (which makes transitional provision for installations) has effect.

(2) An application for a GGETSR emissions plan under regulation 32A of GGETSR 2012 that has not been determined under GGETSR 2012 may be treated by the regulator as an application made under article 28.

(3) An application for the variation of a GGETSR emissions plan that has not been determined under GGETSR 2012 may be treated by the regulator as an application made under article 31.