PART 7Enforcement
CHAPTER 2Civil penalties
Hospitals and small emitters: exceeding emissions target54
1
Where an installation’s reportable emissions in a scheme year for which the installation is a hospital or small emitter exceed the installation’s emissions target for that year, contrary to paragraph 19 of Schedule 7, the operator of the installation is liable to a civil penalty.
2
The civil penalty is (RE-ET) x CP, where—
RE is the installation’s reportable emissions in the scheme year;
ET is the installation’s emissions target for the scheme year;
CP is the carbon price for the scheme year.
3
For the purposes of article 47(2)(b), this paragraph applies where the regulator considers that the installation’s emissions target for the scheme year was incorrectly calculated.
4
In this article, “emissions target” has the meaning given in paragraph 1 of Schedule 7.