Regulation 2 Amendments to the Climate Change Agreements (Eligible Facilities) Regulations 2012

The Climate Change Agreements (Eligible Facilities) Regulations 2012^f1 are amended as follows.

In regulation 2 after the definition of “coating material”, insert—

• ““data facility” means a room, or rooms sharing the same electricity supply circuit, occupied mainly or exclusively by computer equipment which is enabled to transfer data electronically, and where in respect of the room or rooms—

  1. (a)

     the temperature and humidity is regulated in connection with the operation of the computer equipment;

  2. (b)

     the electricity supply is at least 200kW; and

  3. (c)

     electricity is supplied by a back-up electricity supply when the mains supply is interrupted;”.

In regulation 2 after the definition of “relevant commodities”, insert—

• ““semi-processing” means debarking and sawing an unprocessed log;

• “unprocessed log” means a log from which the branches have been removed, but to which no other processing has been applied;”.

At the end of the Schedule insert—

“37.

Where the business activity is the leasing or licensing of a data facility which is being used as a data centre.

38.

Where—

(a)

an unprocessed log undergoes semi-processing (“a semi-processed log”); or

(b)

a semi-processed log is kiln dried, graded, planed, shaped, or chemically treated where this occurs at the same installation or site where the log underwent semi-processing”.