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3.—(1) In these Regulations—
“the 2005 Regulations” means the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme Regulations 2005 F1;
“the 2010 Regulations” means the Aviation Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme Regulations 2010 F2;
“allocation”, in relation to an allowance, means allocation free of charge in accordance with Chapter 1 or 2 of the Directive;
“allowance”—
in this regulation, has the meaning given in Article 3(a) of the Directive, but
otherwise (and subject to regulations 54(7) and 82(1)) means an allowance other than an aviation allowance;
“annual reportable emissions” means the reportable emissions arising in any scheme year;
“authority” means—
in relation to an installation which is (or will be) situated in England or an offshore installation, the Secretary of State;
in relation to an installation, other than an offshore installation, which is (or will be) situated in—
Scotland, the Scottish Ministers;
Wales, the Welsh Ministers;
Northern Ireland, the Department of the Environment;
in relation to a UK administered operator, the authority defined in regulation 20;
in relation to a banned non-UK operator, the Secretary of State;
“aviation activity” means an aviation activity listed in Annex 1 to the Directive;
“aviation allowance” means any allowance allocated in accordance with Article 3e or 3f of the Directive or auctioned in accordance with Article 3d of the Directive;
“aviation emissions” means emissions, arising from an aviation activity, of gases specified in respect of that activity by Annex 1 to the Directive;
“aviation emissions plan” means an emissions plan as defined by regulation 20;
“banned non-UK operator” means a person on whom an operating ban has been imposed under Article 16(10) of the Directive and who is not a UK administered operator;
“bioliquids” has the meaning given in Article 2(h) of the Renewable Energy Directive;
“cease operation”, in relation to an installation, has the meaning given in paragraph (3);
“chief inspector” means the chief inspector constituted under regulation 8(3) of the Northern Ireland Regulations;
“current operator” has the meaning given by regulation 12(1);
“the Directive” means Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a scheme for greenhouse gas emissions allowance trading within the Community and amending Council Directive 96/61/EC F3, as amended from time to time and as adapted by Annex 20 to the EEA agreement F4;
“duly made”, in relation to an application, means made in accordance with the requirements of these Regulations;
“emissions” has the meaning given in Article 3(b) of the Directive;
“excluded installation” means an installation the exclusion of which is deemed to be approved by the European Commission under the first sub-paragraph of Article 27(2) of the Directive, unless a notice has been given to the operator under paragraph 8(1) or (4) or paragraph 9(1) of Schedule 5 (in which case the installation ceases to be an excluded installation as from the date specified in the notice);
“excluded installation emissions permit” means a permit—
granted following an application under regulation 10(2), or
which results from a variation under paragraph 2 of Schedule 5;
“fee”, in relation to any matter, means the fee or charge prescribed in respect of that matter by a scheme, or regulations, made under—
“the Free Allocation Decision” means Commission Decision 2011/278/EU of 27 April 2011 determining transitional Union-wide rules for harmonised free allocation of emission allowances pursuant to Article 10a of Directive 2003/87/EC F8;
“greenhouse gas emissions permit” means a permit granted following an application under—
regulation 10(1); or
regulation 8 of the 2005 Regulations;
“installation” has the meaning given in Article 3(e) of the Directive (and references to an “installation” include a reference to a part of an installation);
“KP registry administrator” has the meaning given by regulation 81(1);
“monitoring and reporting conditions” has the meaning given by paragraph 3(8) of Schedule 5;
“monitoring and reporting requirements” has the meaning given by paragraph 2(3) of Schedule 4;
“the Monitoring and Reporting Regulation” means Commission Regulation (EU) No 601/2012 of 21 June 2012 on the monitoring and reporting of greenhouse gas emissions pursuant to Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council F9, as amended from time to time;
“new operator” has the meaning given by regulation 12(1);
“Northern Ireland Regulations” means the Pollution Prevention and Control Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 F10;
“notice of surrender” has the meaning given in regulation 13(7);
“offshore installation” means—
an offshore petroleum installation; or
an offshore storage or unloading installation;
“offshore petroleum installation” means an installation which—
is used for purposes connected with the exploration for, or exploitation of, petroleum (within the meaning of section 1 of the Petroleum Act 1998 F11); and
is, or will be, situated in the area (together with places above and below it) comprising—
those parts of the sea adjacent to England and Wales from the low water mark to the landward baseline of the United Kingdom territorial sea;
the United Kingdom territorial sea apart from those areas comprised in any controlled waters within the meaning of section 30A(1) of the Control of Pollution Act 1974 F12; and
those areas of sea in any area for the time being designated under section 1(7) of the Continental Shelf Act 1964 F13;
“the Offshore Regulations” means the Offshore Combustion Installations (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Regulations 2001 F14;
“offshore storage or unloading installation” means an installation which—
is used for purposes connected with an activity within section 2(3) or section 17(2) of the Energy Act 2008 F15; and
is, or will be, situated in the area (together with places above and below it) comprising—
those parts of the sea adjacent to England from the low water mark to the landward baseline of the United Kingdom territorial sea;
the United Kingdom territorial sea, other than the territorial sea adjacent to Scotland or Wales; and
those areas of sea in a Gas Importation and Storage Zone (within the meaning of section 1(5) of that Act F16);
“operator”, in relation to an installation, has the meaning given in paragraph (2) (and “operate” has the corresponding meaning);
“partial transfer” has the meaning given by regulation 12(2);
“permit” (except in paragraph 1(2)(b) of Schedule 4 and paragraph 7(12) of Schedule 6) means—
a greenhouse gas emissions permit; or
an excluded installation emissions permit;
“the Planning Appeals Commission” means the Planning Appeals Commission established under article 110 of the Planning (Northern Ireland) Order 1991 F17;
“prescribed” (in relation to a fee) means specified in, or determined under, the scheme or regulations in question;
“the Registries Regulation 2010” means Commission Regulation (EU) No 920/2010 of 7 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 F18;
“the Registries Regulation 2011” means Commission Regulation (EU) No 1193/2011 of 18 November 2011 establishing a Union Registry for the trading period commencing on 1 January 2013, and subsequent trading periods, of the Union emissions trading scheme 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 and amending Commission Regulations (EC) No 2216/2004 and (EU) No 920/2010 F19, as amended from time to time;
“registry administrator” has the meaning given by regulation 8(1);
“registry account” means an operator holding account or an aircraft operator holding account in the Union Registry (and “open”, “blocked” or “excluded” status, in relation to such an account, have the meanings given by Article 9 of the Registries Regulation 2011);
“regulated activity” means an activity (other than an aviation activity) that—
is listed in Annex 1 to the Directive, and
results in specified emissions;
“regulator” means, in relation to—
an installation (other than an offshore installation) which is, or will be, situated in—
England and Wales, the Environment Agency;
Scotland, SEPA;
Northern Ireland, the chief inspector;
an offshore installation, the Secretary of State;
a UK administered operator, the regulator specified in regulations 27 to 29;
a banned non-UK operator, the Environment Agency;
“the Renewable Energy Directive” means Directive 2009/28/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources and amending and subsequently repealing Directives 2001/77/EC and 2003/30/EC F20, as amended from time to time;
“reportable emissions” means—
in relation to an installation, the total specified emissions (expressed in tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent) which arise from the regulated activities carried out at that installation; or
in relation to a UK aircraft operator, the total aviation emissions of that aircraft operator (expressed in tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent);
“revocation notice” has the meaning given by regulation 14(1);
“scheme year” means the year beginning with 1st January 2013 or any subsequent calendar year;
“SEPA” means the Scottish Environment Protection Agency;
“specified emissions”, in relation to an activity listed in Annex 1 to the Directive, means emissions of gases specified in Annex 1 in respect of that activity;
“sub-installation” has the meaning given by Article 3(b), (c), (d) and (h) and Article 6 of the Free Allocation Decision;
“surrender requirements” has the meaning given by paragraph 2(4) of Schedule 4;
“tonne of carbon dioxide equivalent” has the meaning given in Article 3(j) of the Directive;
“trading period” means one of the following eight-year periods—
2013 to 2020; and
subsequent consecutive periods of eight calendar years;
“UK administered operator” has the meaning given in regulation 20;
“UK aircraft operator” has the meaning given by regulation 26;
“the Union Registry” means the registry established by Article 4 of the Registries Regulation 2011;
“the UK Registry” means the registry operated by the Environment Agency for the purposes specified in Article 3(1) of the Registries Regulation 2010 immediately before the coming into force of these Regulations;
“variation”, in relation to a permit or a plan, means the amendment of its provisions (and “vary” has the corresponding meaning);
“the Verification Regulation” means Commission Regulation (EU) No 600/2012 of 21 June 2012 on the verification of greenhouse gas emission reports and tonne-kilometre reports and the accreditation of verifiers pursuant to Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council F21, as amended from time to time;
“working day” means any day other than—
a Saturday, Sunday, Good Friday, or Christmas Day; or
a day which is a bank holiday under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 F22;
“written procedures” means the written procedures required by Article 11(1) of the Monitoring and Reporting Regulation.
(2) The “operator” of an installation is the person who has control over its operation; but where—
(a)an installation has not been put into operation, the operator is the person who will have control over the operation of the installation when it is put into operation;
(b)an installation has ceased operation, the operator is the person who holds the permit relating to the installation; and
(c)the holder of a permit has ceased to have control of the installation to which it relates, the operator is that permit holder.
(3) An installation ceases operation where—
(a)the conditions in paragraph 7(1)(b) or (c) of Schedule 6 apply in relation to that installation; or
(b)the installation is a relevant installation, and has permanently ceased the carrying out of regulated activities for the purposes of paragraph 7 of that Schedule.
(4) For the purposes of paragraph (3), a relevant installation is any installation other than—
(a)an excluded installation; or
(b)an installation that, by virtue of Article 10a(3) of the Directive, is not eligible for an allocation.
(5) References in these Regulations to anything taking effect (or ceasing to have effect) on a particular date are to be read as references to it taking effect (or ceasing to have effect) as from the beginning of that date.
Textual Amendments
F1S.I. 2005/925; amended by S.I. 2005/2903, 2006/737, 2007/465, 2007/1096, 2007/3433, 2010/1513, 2011/1506, 2011/2911 and S.R. (N.I.) 2010/92.
F2S.I. 2010/1996, amended by S.I. 2011/76 and 2011/2911.
F3OJ No L 275, 25.10.2003, p 32. The Directive was amended by European Parliament and Council Directives 2004/101/EC (OJ No L 338, 13.11.2004, p 18), 2008/101/EC (OJ No L 8, 13.1.2009, p 3) and 2009/29/EC (OJ No L 140, 5.6.2009, p 63), and by Regulation (EC) No 219/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ No L 87, 31.3.2009, p 109).
F4See Point 21al of that Annex, amended by Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 6/2011 (OJ No L 93, 7.4.2011, p 35); and see the Introduction and Sectoral Adaptation included at the beginning of the Annex.
F51995 c. 25; section 41A was amended by S.I. 2011/2911 and 2012/2788, and see further the footnote to regulation 18(3).
F6S.R. (N.I.) 2010 No. 151; amended by S.I. 2011/2911 and 2012/2788.
F7Article 127 was substituted by S.I. 2006/1252 (N.I. 7).
F8OJ No L 130, 17.5.2011, p 1.
F9OJ No L 181, 12.7.2012, p 30.
F10S.R. (NI) 2003 No 46, amended by S.R. (NI) 2003 No 496 and S.I. 2003/3311; there are other amending instruments which are not relevant.
F121974 c. 40; section 30A was substituted (in relation to Scotland) by section 169 of, and paragraph 4 of Schedule 23 to, the Water Act 1989 (c. 15), and was amended by section 120 of, and paragraph 29 of Schedule 22 to, the Environment Act 1995.
F131964 c. 29; section 1(7) was amended by section 37 of, and paragraph 1 of Schedule 3 to, the Oil and Gas (Enterprise) Act 1982 (c. 23).
F14S.I. 2001/1091; amended by S.I. 2005/2055, 2007/938, 2007/938 and 2010/1513.
F152008 c. 32; section 17 was amended by S.S.I. 2011/224 and S.I. 2011/2453.
F16Section 1 is amended (from a date yet to be appointed) by section 41 of, and paragraph 5 of Schedule 4 to, the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 (c. 23).
F17S.I. 1991/1220 (N.I. 11); relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1999/660 (N.I. 4) and 2003/430 (N.I. 8).
F18OJ No L 270, 14.10.2010, p 1; amended by the Registries Regulation 2011.
F19OJ No L 315, 29.11.2011, p 1.
F20OJ No L 140, 5.6.2009, p 16.
F21OJ No L 181, 12.7.2012, p 1.
F221971 c. 80; see section 1 and Schedule 1 (which was amended by section 1 of the St Andrew's Day Bank Holiday (Scotland) Act 2007 (2007 asp 2)).
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