Part 3The Trading Schemes

Chapter 1The Non-Zero-Emission Car Registration Trading Scheme (CRTS)

Banked or borrowed CRTS allowances of former CRTS participants

29.—(1) This article applies to a person who—

(a)was a CRTS participant, or a member of a pool CRTS participant, for a scheme year;

(b)is no longer a CRTS participant or a member of a pool CRTS participant for the subsequent scheme year; and

(c)has banked CRTS allowances standing in their name in the registry or has not yet accounted for borrowed CRTS allowances in accordance with article 15.

(2) In this article, a person described in paragraph (1) is referred to as a “former CRTS participant”, and the first scheme year for which the person no longer participates in the CRTS, as described in paragraph (1)(b), is referred to as the “first non-participation scheme year”.

(3) A former CRTS participant may dispose of a banked CRTS allowance referred to in paragraph (1)(c) through trading in accordance with article 25 during the trading window which follows the first non-participation scheme year, as if references in that article to a CRTS participant (except for the reference in paragraph (3)(b)) include the former CRTS participant.

(4) A former CRTS participant must account for a borrowed CRTS allowance referred to in paragraph (1)(c) in accordance with article 15 before the end of the trading window which follows the first non-participation scheme year.

(5) A former CRTS participant may comply with the obligation in paragraph (4) by—

(a)surrendering a banked CRTS allowance;

(b)acquiring a CRTS allowance or CRTS credit during the trading window which follows the first non-participation scheme year through trading in accordance with article 25 or 26, as if references in those articles to a CRTS participant include the former CRTS participant, and surrendering that allowance or credit; or

(c)making a payment in accordance with article 28.