The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2020
This Statutory Instrument has been printed to correct errors in SI 2019/1440 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.
2020 No. 18
Climate Change
The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2020
Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force
The Secretary of State has been designated1 for the purposes of making regulations under section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 19722 in relation to the environment.
In accordance with section 2(4) of the Pollution Prevention and Control Act 1999 (“the 1999 Act”)3, the Secretary of State has consulted the Environment Agency, the Natural Resources Body for Wales, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency, and such bodies or persons appearing to the Secretary of State to be representative of the interests of local government, industry, agriculture and small businesses, and such other bodies and persons, as the Secretary of State considers appropriate.
Accordingly, the Secretary of State makes these Regulations4 in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 2 and 7(9) of, and Schedule 1 to, the 1999 Act and by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972.