The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme Regulations 2012

Regulation 6

SCHEDULE 3 U.K. Applications etc.

Applications etc.: general U.K.

1.—(1) This paragraph applies—

(a) to any application, notice or report submitted to the regulator under any provision of—

(i) these Regulations,

(ii) a permit, or

(iii) an aviation emissions plan; and

(b) notwithstanding any further provision made under or by virtue of these Regulations in respect of such application, notice or report.

(2) Sub-paragraph (10) also applies to applications—

(a) to the registry administrator to open an account in the Union Registry, and

(b) to the KP registry administrator to open an account in the UK Registry,

and for that purpose the provision of updated information in relation to such an account is to be treated as an application.

(3) For the purposes of this paragraph, an application includes any proposed plan required to be submitted as part of the application.

(4) An application, report or notice—

(a) must be in writing; and

(b) unless agreed otherwise in writing with the regulator, must be submitted on a form made available by the regulator for that purpose.

(5) Such a form must specify, as the case may be—

(a) the information required by the regulator to determine the application; or

(b) the matters required to be included in the [F1 report or notice].

(6) Unless agreed otherwise in writing with the regulator, the form must be sent to the regulator electronically.

(7) A form provided by the regulator which specifies an electronic address for submission must, if submitted electronically, be sent to that address.

(8) A form provided by the regulator for submission through a website must, unless the regulator agrees otherwise in writing, be submitted through that site and in accordance with the instructions given there for completion and submission.

(9) Unless the information has been provided in a previous application made to the regulator, an application must contain the name, postal address (including postcode) and telephone number of the applicant, together with—

(a) an email address for service, or

(b) a postal address for service (including postcode) in the United Kingdom,

and in the case of an application under regulation 12 (transfer of permits) those requirements apply to each of the joint applicants.

(10) An application must be accompanied by the fee prescribed, but—

(a) where the application is sent electronically, the fee may be sent to the regulator separately from the application (and in that case the application is deemed not to have been received by the regulator until the fee has also been received); and

(b) where the application relates to an offshore installation, the fee need not be paid until the end of the period of 28 days beginning with the date on which the regulator serves a notice on the operator requesting payment of the fee.

(11) An application may be withdrawn at any time before it is determined.

(12) The regulator may, by notice to the applicant, require the applicant to provide such further information specified in the notice, within the period so specified, as the regulator may require for the purpose of determining the application.

(13) The application is deemed to have been withdrawn where—

(a) the applicant has failed to provide that information by the end of that period (or by such later date as may be agreed with the regulator); and

(b) the regulator gives notice to the applicant that the application is treated as having been withdrawn.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Sch. 3 para. 1(5)(b) substituted (31.1.2014) by The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme and National Emissions Inventory (Amendment) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/3135), regs. 1, 6(2)

Determination of applications U.K.

2.—(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), where an application to the regulator under these Regulations is duly made it must be determined by the regulator within—

(a) the period of two months beginning with the date on which the application was received, or

(b) such longer period as may be agreed in writing with the applicant.

(2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)—

(a) an application is determined when notice of the determination is given to the applicant by the regulator; and

(b) in calculating the period of two months, no account is to be taken of any period beginning with the date on which a notice under paragraph 1(12) is served on the applicant and ending with the date on which the applicant provides the information specified in the notice.

(3) If the regulator fails to determine the application within the period allowed by sub-paragraphs (1) and (2)—

(a) the applicant may give to the regulator notice that the applicant treats the application as having been refused, and

(b) the application is then deemed to have been refused at the end of that period.

(4) Where the application is an application for a permit or the transfer of a permit, any permit that is granted as a result of the application must be attached to the notice given under sub-paragraph (2)(a).