The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme Order 2020

[F1 Information about accounts: aircraft operator holding accounts U.K.

33.— (1) In the case of an aircraft operator holding account, the information is—

(a) the account holder’s Eurocontrol Central Route Charges Office identification number;

(b) the regulator of the account holder;

(c) the number of the account holder’s emissions monitoring plan;

(d) the first scheme year for which the account holder’s aviation emissions are recorded in the account;

(e) if the account is closed, the last scheme year for which the account holder’s aviation emissions are recorded in the account;

(f) the number of allowances allocated free of charge to the account holder for each scheme year;

(g) the account holder’s aviation emissions in each scheme year, and the account holder’s total aviation emissions in the trading period, recorded in the account as at the relevant date;

(h) the total number of allowances transferred from the account to the surrender account (excluding transfers that have subsequently been reversed) as at the relevant date;

(i) the code (known as the “static compliance code”) generated in the registry from the information recorded in the account as at the relevant date, and the key to that code, indicating which one of the statuses referred to in sub-paragraph (2) applies.

(2) The statuses are that—

(a) the account holder is not an aircraft operator in relation to the scheme year preceding the relevant date;

(b) paragraph (a) does not apply and the account holder’s aviation emissions in the scheme year preceding the relevant date are not recorded in the account as at the relevant date;

(c) neither paragraph (a) nor (b) applies and the total number of allowances referred to in sub-paragraph (1)(h) is greater than or equal to the account holder’s total aviation emissions in the trading period recorded in the account as at the relevant date;

(d) neither paragraph (a) nor (b) applies and the total number of allowances referred to in sub-paragraph (1)(h) is less than the account holder’s total aviation emissions in the trading period recorded in the account as at the relevant date.

(3) In this paragraph, “relevant date” means the 1st May preceding the date of publication of the information or updated information.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 5A Pt. 4 inserted (1.1.2023) by The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2022 (S.I. 2022/1173), arts. 2, 15(3)