Reporting requirements and the provision of information
11.—(1) A person who produces fluorinated greenhouse gases in Northern Ireland and who produces more than one tonne of such gases in the Community each year commits an offence if that person fails to comply with the requirements of Article 6.1(a) within the time limits set out in Article 6.1.
(2) A person who exports fluorinated greenhouse gases from Northern Ireland and who exports more than one tonne of such gases from the Community each year commits an offence if that person fails to comply with the requirements of Article 6.1(c) within the time limits set out in Article 6.1.
(3) A person commits an offence if that person fails within a reasonable time to provide such information as the Department may reasonably request to enable the Department to acquire emission data for the purposes of Article 6.4.
(4) A person commits an offence if the person communicates to the Commission a defective report.
(5) In this regulation, “defective report” means a report under Article 6 which is not in the format required under Commission Regulation (EC) No 1493/2007 establishing, pursuant to the 2006 Regulation, the format for the report to be submitted by producers, importers and exporters of certain fluorinated greenhouse gases.