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79.—(1) In this regulation and regulation 80, a reference to a numbered Article is to that Article of the Registries Regulation 2011.
(2) In regulation 80—
“the allocation table” means the national allocation table notified to the European Commission by the United Kingdom under Article 49;
“the aviation allocation table” means the national aviation allocation table notified by the United Kingdom to the European Commission under Article 53(1).
80.—(1) The registry administrator may require users of the Union Registry to comply with reasonable terms and conditions in relation to that registry.
(2) It is the duty of the account holder to comply with the requirement to enter emissions data in accordance with Article 32(2); furthermore, an amount of zero must be entered by the account holder if the latter is—
(a)an operator who carried out no regulated activity in the year to which the data would relate; or
(b)a UK administered operator who carried out no aviation activity in that year.
(3) The verifier is responsible under Articles 32(4) and (5) for—
(a)approving the annual verified emissions; and
(b)marking the emissions as verified.
(4) The operator or the UK administered operator is responsible for complying with the requirement under Article 14(1) or 15(1) to provide information to the registry administrator and request the opening of a registry account.
(5) In complying with the requirement mentioned in paragraph (4), the operator or the UK administered operator must provide such evidence of identity and address as may be required by the registry administrator.
(6) Where—
(a)an operator fails to comply with regulation 41, or
(b)a UK aircraft operator fails to comply with regulation 42,
the registry administrator must set the relevant registry account to blocked status until the compliance status figure for the installation or UK aircraft operator, calculated in accordance with Article 34, is greater than or equal to zero.
(7) This paragraph applies where—
(a)an operator is required to submit a report to the regulator by the terms of a notice of surrender or a revocation notice; and
(b)the operator—
(i)fails to submit the report to the regulator within the time specified in the report;
(ii)submits an incomplete report to the regulator within the time so specified; or
(iii)submits within the time so specified a report to the regulator that cannot be verified in whole or in part in accordance with the monitoring and reporting requirements for the installation.
(8) Where paragraph (7) applies, the registry administrator must set the relevant operator holding account to blocked status until—
(a)the report has been prepared and verified in accordance with the requirements of paragraph 4(1)(b) or 5(1)(b) of Schedule 4 and has been submitted to the regulator; or
(b)the regulator has notified, in accordance with regulation 44(4)(a), a determination of the reportable emissions referred to in paragraph 4(1)(a) or 5(1)(a) of that Schedule.
(9) Where an operator is in breach of the requirement to comply with a notice given under paragraph 11(2) of Schedule 6 or paragraph 10(2) of Schedule 7, the registry administrator must set the operator holding account to blocked status until that notice has been complied with.
(10) Where the registry administrator sets a registry account to blocked status pursuant to paragraph (6), (8) or (9) it must notify the account holder specifying the reason why, and the period during which, the relevant registry account will be blocked.
(11) The regulator must, as soon as is reasonably practicable, notify the registry administrator where a change to the allocation table or aviation allocation table becomes necessary—
(a)by virtue of Article 50(1) or 54(1), or
(b)for any other reason (and in particular in consequence of paragraph 5 or 10 of Schedule 6).
(12) The registry administrator must, as soon as is reasonably practicable, notify the European Commission in accordance with Article 50(2) or 54(2) of any changes to the allocation table or aviation allocation table (other than those falling within paragraph (11)(a)).
(13) This paragraph applies where—
(a)a notice of surrender or a revocation notice has been given and has taken effect; and
(b)the operator is unable to comply with the requirement to surrender allowances imposed by that notice by the date specified in the notice, due to the suspension of access to the relevant registry account by the registry administrator pursuant to Article 31.
(14) Where paragraph (13) applies, the registry administrator must, if so requested by the operator, surrender the number of allowances specified in the notice of surrender or the revocation notice.
(15) The registry administrator or the KP registry administrator may refuse to—
(a)open any account in the Union Registry or the UK Registry, or
(b)approve an authorised representative or an additional authorised representative in relation to such an account,
where it is satisfied that the proposed account holder, authorised representative or additional authorised representative is not a fit and proper person to hold such an account or, as the case may be, act as such a representative.
(16) The registry administrator may extend the suspension of the running of delays under Article 36(3) to all days in a scheme year that are not working days, provided that the decision to do so is published by the registry administrator by 1st December in the previous scheme year.
81.—(1) The Environment Agency must continue to operate the UK Registry for the purposes of meeting the obligations of the United Kingdom referred to in Article 3(1) of the Registries Regulation 2010 (obligations as a Party to the Kyoto Protocol F1 and under Article 6 of Decision No 280/2004/EC F2), and in that capacity is referred to in these Regulations as the “KP registry administrator”.
(2) The Environment Agency may require users of the UK Registry to comply with reasonable terms and conditions in relation to that registry.
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