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The Climate Change Agreements (Amendment of Agreements) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018

S.I. 2018/1205 · Made 19 November 2018 · Extends to United Kingdom

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Exiting The European Union

Climate Change Levy

Made 19th November 2018

Laid before the House of Commons 22nd November 2018

Coming into force in accordance with regulation 1

The Secretary of State makes these Regulations in exercise of powers conferred by paragraphs 52D and 146(7) of Schedule 6 to the Finance Act 2000 M1.

Annotations to the whole text

Marginal citations

M1

2000 c.17. Paragraphs 52A to 52F were inserted by paragraph 9 of Schedule 31 to the Finance Act 2012 (c.14). Schedule 31 to the Finance Act 2012 also amended paragraphs 44, 45, 45B, 47, 48, 49 and 137 of Schedule 6 to the Finance Act 2000. There are other amendments to the Finance Act 2000 which are not relevant.

Contents

  1. 1Citation, commencement and interpretation
  2. 2Amendment of the Climate Change Agreements
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation, commencement and interpretationI1

(1)

These Regulations may be cited as the Climate Change Agreements (Amendment of Agreements) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 and come into force on exit day M1.

(2)

In these Regulations—

  • “agreement” means an umbrella agreement or an underlying agreement;

  • “umbrella agreement” means an agreement that is an umbrella agreement for the purposes of paragraph 48 of Schedule 6 to the Finance Act 2000;

  • “underlying agreement” means an agreement that is an underlying agreement for the purposes of paragraph 48 of Schedule 6 to the Finance Act 2000 or, if there is no umbrella agreement, an agreement falling within paragraph 47 of Schedule 6 to that Act.

2Amendment of the Climate Change AgreementsI1

(1)

An agreement entered into before F1IP completion day has effect as if—

(a)

the definition, if any, of “EU ETS Directive” were omitted;

(b)

for the definition, if any, of “technical annex”, there were substituted the definition contained in paragraph (2);

(c)

for each reference, if any, to “European Commission Guidelines on State Aid for Rescuing and Restructuring Firms in Difficulty (2004/C 244/02)”, there were substituted “ European Commission Guidelines on State aid for rescuing and restructuring non-financial undertakings in difficulty (2014/C 249/01) ”;

(d)

for each reference, if any, to “regulations made for the purpose of implementing the EU ETS Directive”, there were substituted “ the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme Regulations 2012 M1 F2or the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme Order 2020, as amended from time to time, ”.

(2)

The definition contained in this paragraph, as referred to in paragraph (1)(b), is as follows—

““technical annex” means the technical annex to this Agreement dated 6th March 2013 and published by the Administrator or the Secretary of State, available via the Administrator's website M2, reading that technical annex as if—

(a)

in the fourth bullet of paragraph 3 (structural changes), “, as defined in Directive 2003/87/EC” were omitted;

(b)

in paragraph 5 (other changes), for “European Commission Community Guidelines on State Aid for Rescuing and Restructuring Firms in Difficult (2004/C 244/02)” there were substituted “ European Commission Guidelines on State aid for rescuing and restructuring non-financial undertakings in difficulty (2014/C 249/01) ”;

(c)

in Annex B (interpretation)—

(i)

before the definition of “carbon target”, there were inserted—

“

Annex 1 activitiesActivities listed in Annex 1 to Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 October 2003 establishing a system for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading within the Union and amending Council Directive 96/61/EC M3 as it had effect immediately before F3IP completion day, reading that Annex as if—
(a)

for “in a storage site permitted under Directive 2009/31/EC” in each place in which those words occur, there were substituted “ in a storage site permitted under Chapter 3 of Part 1 of the Energy Act 2008 M4 or other domestic legislation which immediately before IP completion day implemented Directive 2009/31/EC M5 ”;

(b)in the section titled ‘Aviation’—
(i)

after “to which the Treaty applies”, there were inserted “ or the United Kingdom or Gibraltar ”;

(ii)

in point (a) and in point (j), after “a Member State”, there were inserted “ or the United Kingdom ”.

”;

(ii)

in the definition of “target facility”, for “Annex I activities as defined in the Emissions Trading Directive 2003/87/EC (as amended from time to time)” there were substituted “ Annex 1 activities ”;”.

Signature

Claire Perry

Minister of State

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations make amendments to agreements made pursuant to the Climate Change Agreement scheme established under Schedule 6 to the Finance Act 2000 (c.17), including in consequence of the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union.

These Regulations make amendments to both types of agreements that exist under the scheme, being umbrella agreements (which are agreements between the administrator of the scheme and the sector associations) and underlying agreements (which are between the administrator and operators).

The amendments update references to the European Commission's guidelines setting out the definition of an undertaking in difficulty to the latest version of those guidelines (OJ C 249, 31.7.2014, p1).

The amendments also, in consequence of the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union, correct deficiencies in cross-references to Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 October 2003 establishing a system for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading within the Union and amending Council Directive 96/61/EC (OJ L 275, 25.10.03, p32).

An impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private or voluntary sector is foreseen.