PART 7 U.K. Enforcement

CHAPTER 2 U.K. Civil penalties

Installations: failure to transfer or surrender allowances where underreporting discovered after transfer U.K.

53.—(1) A person is liable to a civil penalty where the person fails—

(a) to effect a transfer (or to effect a transfer on time) of allowances, contrary to paragraph 10(3) of Schedule 6 (transfer of permits: underreporting discovered after transfer);

(b) to surrender (or to surrender on time) allowances, contrary to paragraph 10(4) of that Schedule.

[F1 (2) The civil penalty is—

(a) CP x 1.5 for each allowance that the person fails to transfer or surrender, where CP is the carbon price for the scheme year after the scheme year to which the report referred to in sub-paragraph (1) of paragraph 10 of Schedule 6 relates; and

(b) a daily penalty at a daily rate of £1,000 for each day that sub-paragraph (3) or, as the case may be, (4) of that paragraph has not been complied with, beginning with the day on which the initial notice is given (see article 47(5)).]

Textual Amendments

F1 Art. 53(2) substituted for art. 53(2)(3) (1.1.2025) by The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/1366), arts. 2(2)(b), 20(2)

Commencement Information

I1 Art. 53 in force at 12.11.2020, see art. 2(1)