4

The Monitoring and Reporting Regulation 2018 and the Verification Regulation 2018 are to be read as if references, however expressed, to a report submitted or information obtained under Commission Implementing Regulation 2018/2067 in relation to a year or other period before 2021 were to a report submitted or other information obtained under that Regulation as it had effect in EU law or under the Verification Regulation 2012.

5

A person referred to in paragraph (6) may—

a

use information held or obtained for the purposes of the EU ETS in the exercise of the person's functions under UK ETS legislation;

b

disclose such information in the exercise of the person's functions under UK ETS legislation—

i

to another person referred to in paragraph (6);

ii

to any other person, if the disclosure is necessary or expedient for the exercise of the person's functions under UK ETS legislation.

6

The persons are—

a

the Secretary of State;

b

the Environment Agency;

c

the chief inspector;

d

SEPA;

e

NRW.

7

In this article, “UK ETS legislation” means any of the following—

a

this Order;

b

the Monitoring and Reporting Regulation 2018;

c

the Verification Regulation 2018;

d

the Free Allocation Regulation;

e

the Activity Level Changes Regulation.