The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2019

Amendment of Article 27

29.  In Article 27—

(a) in paragraph 1—

(i) for “each emission report, tonne-kilometre report, baseline data report or new entrant data report” substitute “each emission report or tonne-kilometre report”;

(ii) omit point (e);

(b) in paragraph 3—

(i) for point (e), substitute—

“(e) the criteria used to verify the operator’s or aircraft operator’s report, including the permit, where applicable, and versions of the monitoring plan approved by the competent authority as well as the period of validity for each monitoring plan;”;

(ii) omit point (f);

(iii) in point (g) for “per activity referred to in Annex I to Directive 2003/87/EC and per installation or aircraft operator” substitute “per aviation activity and per aircraft operator or per activity, other than aviation, listed in Annex 1 to Directive 2003/87/EC and per installation”;

(iv) omit point (h);

(v) in point (i), omit “or baseline period”;

(vi) for point (o), substitute—

“(o) any issues of non-compliance with Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/2066 which have become apparent during the verification;”;

(vii) omit points (q) and (r);

(c) in paragraph 4—

(i) for the first sub paragraph, substitute—

“The verifier shall describe the misstatements, non-conformities and non-compliance with Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/2066 in sufficient detail in the verification report to allow the operator or aircraft operator as well as the competent authority to understand the following:”;

(ii) for point (a), substitute—

“(a) the size and nature of the misstatement, non-conformity or non-compliance with Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/2066;”;

(iii) in point (c), omit “or the monitoring methodology plan”;

(iv) for point (d), substitute—

“(d) to which Article in Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/2066 the non-compliance relates.”;

(d) in paragraph 5, for “a Member State” substitute “the competent authority”.