PART 3Monitoring and Enforcement in England

Information notices13

1

For any of the purposes mentioned in paragraph (2), the Environment Agency may, by notice served on an operator or the operator of an associated gasification plant (“an information notice”), require that person to furnish to the Environment Agency such information as is stated in the notice, in such form and within such period following service of the notice or at such time as is so stated.

2

The purposes referred to in paragraph (1) are—

a

investigating whether or not the operator has breached the emissions limit duty;

b

investigating whether or not an operator has failed to comply with either or both of the duties in regulations 9 and 11;

c

investigating whether a complete CCS system is ready for use; and

d

investigating any of the following in relation to an associated gasification plant, for the purposes of calculating the emissions of a relevant fossil fuel plant—

i

the carbon dioxide emissions of the associated gasification plant; and

ii

the amount of fuel produced by the associated gasification plant and used by the relevant fossil fuel plant.