The Carbon Accounting (Amendment) Regulations 2009

This Statutory Instrument has been printed to correct an error in S.I. 2009/1257 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.

Statutory Instruments

2009 No. 3146

Climate Change

The Carbon Accounting (Amendment) Regulations 2009

Made

1st December 2009

Laid before Parliament

3rd December 2009

Coming into force

1st January 2010

The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 27(3) and 90(3) of the Climate Change Act 2008 (“the Act”)(1).

Before making of these Regulations, the Secretary of State consulted the Scottish Ministers, the Welsh Ministers and the Department of the Environment in Northern Ireland, in accordance with section 28(4)(b) of the Act(2).

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Carbon Accounting (Amendment) Regulations 2009 and come into force on 1st January 2010.

Amendment of the Carbon Accounting Regulations 2009

2.—(1) The following amendments are made to regulation 6 (crediting and debiting of carbon units as a result of the operation of the EU ETS during the 2008-2012 budgetary period) of the Carbon Accounting Regulations 2009(3).

(2) In paragraphs (3), (4), (5) and (6) for “245,991,207” substitute “the annual allocation”.

(3) After paragraph (6) insert—

“(7) For the purposes of regulation 6 “the annual allocation” means—

(a) 245,991,207 carbon units in respect of 2008;

(b) 245,294,083 carbon units in respect of 2009 and 2010;

(c) 245,294,084 carbon units in respect of 2011 and 2012.”.

Joan Ruddock

Minister of State

Department of Energy and Climate Change

1st December 2009

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend an error in regulation 6 of the Carbon Accounting Regulations 2009. They adjust the annual amount of carbon units to be used in determining the amount of units to be credited to or debited from the net UK carbon account as a result of the operation of the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme. This ensures that the annual amounts add up to the UK allocation under the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme for the period 2008-2012.

A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sectors is foreseen.

(1)

2008 c. 27.

(2)

“National authority” and “the relevant Northern Ireland department” are defined in sections 95 and 96 of the Act.

(3)

S.I. 2009/1257.