The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme Regulations 2012

Monitoring and reporting emissionsU.K.

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35.—(1) [F1Subject to paragraph (5), once] a UK administered operator (“A”) has been issued with an emissions plan, A must monitor aviation emissions for each scheme year in which A is a UK aircraft operator.

(2) [F2Subject to paragraph (5), monitoring] under paragraph (1) must be carried out in accordance with—

(a)the Monitoring and Reporting Regulation; and

(b)A's emissions plan (including the written procedures supplementing that plan).

(3) [F3Subject to paragraphs (6) and (7),] A must prepare a verified report of aviation emissions, for the whole of each such scheme year, in accordance with the Monitoring and Reporting Regulation and the Verification Regulation.

[F4(4) Subject to paragraphs (6) to (8), the report prepared under paragraph (3) must be submitted to the regulator—

(a)for the scheme year 2018, by 11th March 2019; or

(b)for any other scheme year, by 31st March in the year following that scheme year.]

[F5(5) The obligation to monitor aviation emissions does not apply in respect of excluded aviation emissions for the scheme years 2015 and 2016.

(6) The obligation to prepare and to submit to the regulator a verified report of aviation emissions does not apply—

(a)in respect of excluded aviation emissions, for the scheme years beginning with 2013 and ending with 2016; or

(b)where, for the scheme years 2013 or 2014, A was an exempt non-commercial air transport operator.

(7) The obligation for the report to be verified in accordance with the Verification Regulation does not apply where—

(a)A has annual reportable emissions of less than 25,000 tonnes; and

(b)A has determined its emissions using the small emitters tool approved under the Small Emitters Tool Regulation and populated with data by Eurocontrol.

(8) The verified report for the scheme year 2013 must be submitted to the regulator by 31st March 2015.]

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