The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme Order 2020

Hospitals and small emitters: modifications to Monitoring and Reporting Regulation 2018 U.K.

13.—(1) Where an installation is a hospital or small emitter for a scheme year, the Monitoring and Reporting Regulation 2018 has effect with the following modifications (in addition to the modifications in Schedule 4).

F1 (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(3) Article 19 is to be read as if—

(a) in paragraph 2 for the words from “in one of the following categories” to the end there were substituted “ as a category A installation ”;

(b) paragraph 5 were omitted.

[F2 (4) Article 38 is to be read as if—

(a) in paragraph 2—

(i) in the first subparagraph “, but, subject to paragraph 2a, the emission factor for bioliquids shall be zero only if the sustainability criteria set out in Article 17(2) to (5) of Directive 2009/28/EC have been fulfilled” were omitted;

(ii) in the second subparagraph for “each fuel” there were substituted “a mixed fuel”;

(b) paragraph 2a were omitted.]

(5) Article 47 is to be read as if—

(a) every installation that is a hospital or small emitter for a scheme year were an installation to which Article 47 applies (that is to say, an installation that operates with low emissions, disregarding the second subparagraph of paragraph 1 of that Article);

[F3 (aa) in paragraph 3—

(i) for “an improvement report” there were substituted “a report”;

(ii) after “in response to” there were inserted “outstanding non-conformities or”;]

(b) paragraph 8 were omitted.

(6) Where an emissions report submitted to the regulator under paragraph 11(2)(b) is accompanied by a declaration referred to in paragraph 11(2)(b)(ii) (and is not [F4 verified as satisfactory in accordance] with the Verification Regulation 2018), in the Monitoring and Reporting Regulation 2018—

(a) Annex 10 must be read as if section 1(2) were omitted;

(b) a reference to a verified annual emission report is to be read as a reference to the emissions report;

(c) a reference to verified annual emissions or verified emissions is to be read as a reference to the reportable emissions reported in the emissions report;

(d) a reference to a verifier is to be read as a reference to the regulator;

(e) a reference to verifying or verification is to be read as a reference to auditing the reportable emissions reported in the emissions report by the regulator in accordance with the regulator's procedures for auditing reportable emissions of installations, the operators of which submit emissions reports under paragraph 11(2)(b)(ii);

(f) a reference to a verification report is to be read as a reference to the record of such an audit given to the operator by the regulator.

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 7 para. 13(2) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/1557), arts. 2(1), 39(4)(a)

F2 Sch. 7 para. 13(4) substituted (1.1.2023) by The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2022 (S.I. 2022/1173), arts. 2, 17(3)

F3 Sch. 7 para. 13(5)(aa) inserted (7.2.2022) by The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/1455), arts. 2, 25(4)

F4 Words in Sch. 7 para. 13(6) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/1557), arts. 2(1), 39(4)(b)

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 7 para. 13 in force at 12.11.2020, see art. 2(1)