The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) Order 2020

Annex 4 amended (parameters for baseline data collection) U.K.

34.—(1) Annex 4 is amended as follows.

(2) In the first paragraph for “relevant baseline period” substitute “ baseline period beginning on 1 January 2019 ”.

(3) In section 1—

(a) in section 1.1—

(i) in point (b) for “Union Registry” substitute “ registry ”;

(ii) omit point (c);

(iii) in point (d) omit “GHG”;

(b) in section 1.3—

(i) in point (a) for “activities pursuant to Annex I to Directive 2003/87/EC” substitute “ regulated activities ”;

(ii) for point (c) substitute—

“(c) Whether the installation meets condition A, B or C referred to in paragraph 6 of Schedule 7 to the UK ETS Order or the relevant condition referred to in paragraph 3 of Schedule 8 to that Order.”;

(c) in section 1.4—

(i) in point (a) omit “pursuant to Article 3(u) of Directive 2003/87/EC”;

(ii) for point (b) substitute—

“(b) Whether the installation is used for any of the following:

(i) the capture of greenhouse gases from other installations for the purpose of transport and geological storage in a storage site;

(ii) the transport of greenhouse gases by pipelines for geological storage in a storage site;

(iii) the geological storage of greenhouse gases in a storage site;”;

(d) in section 1.6—

(i) in the heading after “EU ETS” insert “ or UK ETS ”;

(ii) in point (c)—

(aa) after “EU ETS” insert “ or UK ETS ”;

(bb) for “Registry” substitute “ Union Registry or registry ”.

(4) In section 2—

(a) in section 2.1—

(i) in the first subparagraph—

(aa) in point (b) for “GHG” substitute “ greenhouse gas ”;

(bb) in point (c) for “Regulation (EU) No 601/2012” substitute “ the Monitoring and Reporting Regulation 2018 ”;

(ii) in the second subparagraph for “Member States may choose to allow operators to report” substitute “ The report may include ”.

(b) in section 2.3—

(i) in point (c) after “EU ETS” insert “ or UK ETS ”;

(ii) in point (d) after “EU ETS” insert “ or UK ETS ”;

(iii) in point (i) after “EU ETS” insert “ or UK ETS ”;

(iv) in point (j) after “EU ETS” insert “ or UK ETS ”;

(v) in point (m) after “EU ETS” insert “ or UK ETS ”;

(vi) in point (n) after “EU ETS” insert “ or UK ETS ”;

(vii) in point (p)—

(aa) omit “carbon leakage and non-carbon leakage”;

(bb) after “district heating sub-installations” insert “ that serve and do not serve sectors or subsectors set out in the Annex to Commission Delegated Decision (EU) 2019/708 ”;

(c) in section 2.6—

(i) in point (a) for “non-EU ETS” substitute “ non-ETS ”;

(ii) in point (b) for “delegated acts adopted pursuant to Article 10b(5) of Directive 2003/87/EC” substitute “ Commission Delegated Decision (EU) 2019/708 ”;

(iii) in point (c)—

(aa) for “the carbon leakage heat benchmark sub-installation” substitute “ a heat benchmark sub-installation that serves a sector or subsector set out in the Annex to Commission Delegated Decision (EU) 2019/708 ”;

(bb) after “EU ETS” insert “ or UK ETS ”;

(d) in section 2.7 in point (b) for “delegated acts adopted pursuant to Article 10b(5) of Directive 2003/87/EC” substitute “ Commission Delegated Decision (EU) 2019/708 ”.

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 1 para. 34 in force at 31.12.2020 on IP completion day, see art. 2(2)(a)