The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2014

Statutory instruments 3125 2014

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Great Britain

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TSO (The Stationery Office)

Enabling power: Pollution Prevention and Control Act 1999, s. 2, 7 (9), sch.1, and European Communities Act 1972, s. 2 (2). Issued: 01.12.2014. Made: 20.11.2014. Laid: 26.11.2014. Coming into force: 22.12.2014. Effect: S.I. 2012/3038 amended. Territorial extent and classification: E/W/S/NI. General. EC note: These Regulations implement Regulation No 421/2014 amending Directive 2003/87/EC establishing a scheme for greenhouse gas allowance trading with the Community. Directive 2003/87/EC is currently implemented in the UK by the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme Regulations 2012 (the 2012 Regulations. The 2012 Regulations require aircraft operators which are administered by the UK to monitor and report their aviation emissions each calendar year and then to surrender sufficient emissions trading allowances to cover those emissions. These Regulations amend the 2012 Regulations.