Regulation 6 Amendments to the Carbon Accounting Regulations 2009

in paragraph (1), in the definition of “the EU ETS”, after “Regulations 2005”, insert “or, as the case may be, the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme Regulations 2012”;

in paragraph (2), after “these Regulations”, insert “, except in regulation 9(6),”.

in paragraph (1), for the words from “these Regulations” to the end, substitute “carbon accounting legislation”;

in paragraph (3), for the words from “in accordance with” to “Regulations 2020”, substitute “following a calculation performed under carbon accounting legislation to account for the operation of the EU ETS, including where carbon accounting legislation requires such a calculation in relation to domestic aviation emissions”;

in paragraph (6), for the words from “regulation 5 of the Carbon Accounting (2013-2017 Budgetary Period) Regulations 2015” to “Regulations 2020”, substitute “a provision of carbon accounting legislation, other than regulation 8 of these Regulations”;

after paragraph (6), insert—

“(7)

In this regulation, “carbon accounting legislation” means any of the following—

(a)

these Regulations;

(b)

the Carbon Accounting (2013-2017 Budgetary Period) Regulations 2015^f1;

(c)

the Carbon Accounting (Provision for 2018) Regulations 2020^f2;

(d)

the Carbon Accounting (Provision for 2019) Regulations 2021.”.