The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2019

Insertion of regulation 84AU.K.

This section has no associated Explanatory Memorandum

25.  After regulation 84, insert—

Duty of Secretary of State to publish information

84A.(1) By 31st March each year, the Secretary of State must publish the total amount of compensation that has been provided in the previous scheme year for the purposes of the first subparagraph of Article 10a(6) M1 of the Directive.

(2) The Secretary of State must publish that information in a form that is easily accessible to the public.

(3) Where the compensation provided in a particular scheme year exceeds an amount that is more than 25% of the revenues generated from the auctioning of allowances in that year, the Secretary of State must set out in a report the reasons for exceeding that amount..

Commencement Information

I1Reg. 25 in force at 21.11.2019, see reg. 1(2)

Marginal Citations

M1Paragraph 6 was substituted by Directive (EU) 2018/410 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 March 2018 and amending Directive 2003/87/EC to enhance cost-effective emission reduction and low-carbon investments, and Decision (EU) 2015/1814 (OJ L No 76, 19.03.2018, p. 3).