The Aviation Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme Regulations 2010

PART 14 U.K. Revocation and savings etc.

Revocation, savings, transitional and transitory provisions U.K.

60.—(1) Subject to the following paragraphs of this regulation, the 2009 Regulations are revoked.

(2) Part 2 of the 2009 Regulations continues to have effect in relation to an application for the issue of allowances under Article 3e of the EU ETS Directive in the trading periods—

(a) 2012; or

(b) 2013 to 2020.

(3) Regulations 14 and 15 of the 2009 Regulations continue to have effect in relation to a person who becomes an aircraft operator before the commencement date.

(4) Regulations 18 and 28 of the 2009 Regulations continue to have effect until such time as the aircraft operator’s emissions plan includes the conditions referred to in regulation 23(1) of these Regulations.

(5) For the purposes of the provisions that continue to have effect in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (4), and for the purposes of regulation 16 of the 2009 Regulations, the following provisions of those Regulations also continue to have effect—

(a) regulations 2 to 7;

(b) regulation 21 (but with the reference to regulation 30 omitted);

(c) regulation 22;

(d) regulation 23, as modified by paragraph (6);

(e) regulation 24, as modified by paragraph (7);

(f) regulation 27(1);

(g) Parts 7 and 9;

(h) Schedules 2 to 4; and

(i) Schedule 5, as modified by paragraph (8).

(6) In regulation 23(1)(a), for “the person liable” to “that the person”, substitute “within 8 weeks of the service of the notice under regulation 21(1) the person liable to a civil penalty or on whom the civil penalty has been imposed demonstrates to the satisfaction of the regulator (or the regulator at any time becomes satisfied) that the person”.

(7) In regulation 24—

(a) for paragraph (1) substitute—

“(1) The civil penalties in paragraph (2) apply where an aircraft operator—

(a) fails to submit (or to submit on time) an application for an emissions plan, contrary to regulation 14;

(b) fails to resubmit (or to resubmit on time) an application for an emissions plan under regulation 15(4).”; and

(b) in paragraph (2)(a)(ii) and (b)(ii), for “provided late” substitute “not provided”.

(8) In Schedule 5—

(a) in paragraph 7(b), after “email address” insert “(or, in the case of a partnership established outside the United Kingdom, the last known address)”;

(b) for paragraph 8, substitute—

“8.   For the purposes of paragraph 7, where a body corporate registered outside the United Kingdom or a partnership established outside the United Kingdom has an office in the United Kingdom, the principal office of that body corporate or partnership is its principal office in the United Kingdom.” and

(c) after paragraph 8, insert—

“8A.— (1) Where for the purposes of paragraph 7 the person giving or serving notice is not able to ascertain a proper address in relation to a UK operator, a relevant address may instead be treated as the proper address.

(2) For that purpose “relevant address” means an address derived from information supplied to the regulator by Eurocontrol (or any other organisation) at the request of the European Commission.”.

(9) Regulation 20 of these Regulations does not apply in respect of any period before the commencement date; but paragraph (10) below applies where—

(a) a notice has been served before that date under regulation 21(1) of the 2009 Regulations in relation to a civil penalty under regulation 25(2) of those Regulations; and

(b) the aircraft operator continues to fail to monitor aviation emissions after the commencement date.

(10) Where this paragraph applies, the aircraft operator is liable to the additional daily penalty under regulation 34(2) of these Regulations; and a notice under regulation 30(2) may be given in respect of both the amount of additional daily penalty under regulation 25(2) of the 2009 Regulations accruing before the commencement date, and the amount of additional daily penalty under regulation 34(2) of these Regulations accruing after the commencement date, up to a maximum of £4,500.

(11) Part 9 of these Regulations applies to a civil penalty which is due under regulation 21(3) or (4) of the 2009 Regulations as it applies to a civil penalty which is due under regulation 30(3) or (4) of these Regulations; and for that purpose—

(a) the reference in regulation 42(3) to a civil penalty imposed in respect of a failure to comply with these Regulations is to be read as a reference to a civil penalty imposed in respect of a failure to comply with the 2009 Regulations; and

(b) the reference in regulation 43(1)(b)(i) to regulation 52 is to be read as a reference to regulation 36 of the 2009 Regulations.

(12) In this regulation, “commencement date” means the date on which these Regulations come into force.