The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme Regulations 2012

Disclosure of information

46.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2) a relevant body (within the meaning of regulation 45(2)) must not disclose or publish any information provided to the relevant body under these Regulations except where—

(a) disclosure or publication is—

(i) required in these Regulations or otherwise by law;

(ii) necessary for the performance of the relevant body’s functions (as defined by regulation 45(6)); or

(iii) made with the consent of the person by or on behalf of whom the information was provided; or

(b) disclosure is between one relevant body and another.

(2) The Secretary of State may use any information held or obtained for the purposes of these Regulations, and may share such information with other government bodies, for the purpose of preparing and publishing national energy and emissions statistics, including the preparation and publication of a national inventory.

(3) For the purpose of paragraph (2), “national inventory” means the estimation, under Article 4(1)(a) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change(1), of anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases by sources and removals of all greenhouse gases by sinks not controlled by the Montreal Protocol.

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