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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-carbon-accounting-scheme-scotland-regulations-2010/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "sdsi/2010/9780111008881",
  "legislation_title": "The Carbon Accounting Scheme (Scotland) Regulations 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-carbon-accounting-scheme-scotland-regulations-2010",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“2009 Regulations” means the Carbon Accounting Regulations 2009;\n“cancellation” of a carbon unit means the crediting of the unit in the national cancellation account in the UK registry, and a unit so credited is “cancelled”;\n“EU ETS” means the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme established under Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a scheme for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading within the Community and amending Council Directive 96/61/EC;\n“Kyoto Protocol” means the Kyoto Protocol to the UNFCCC signed at Kyoto on 11th December 1997;\n“Registries Regulation” means Commission Regulation (EC) No 2216/2004 for a standardised and secured system of registries pursuant to Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and Decision No 280/2004/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council;\n“registry administrator” means the body appointed by the competent authority as the registry administrator for the UK registry for the purposes of the Registries Regulation;\n“UNFCCC” means the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change signed at New York on 9th May 1992; and\n“UK registry” means the registry established for the United Kingdom in accordance with the Registries Regulation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2009/1257 as amended by S.I. 2009/3146."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "O.J. No. L 275, 25.10.2003, p.32 as amended by Directive 2004/101/EC (O.J. No. L 338, 13.11.2004, p.18); Directive 2008/101/EC (O.J. No. L 8, 13.1.2009, p.3); Commission Regulation (EC) No. 219/2009, (O.J. No. L 87, 31.3.2009, p.109); and Directive 2009/29/EC (O.J. No. L 140, 5.6.2009, p.63). The Emissions Trading Directive is transposed by the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/925)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "The Protocol was signed by the United Kingdom on 29th April 1998 and entered into force on 16th February 2005. The text of the Protocol can be found at http://unfcc.int/2860."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "O.J. No. L 386, 29.12.2004, p.1 as amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No. 916/2007, (O.J. No. L 200, 1.8.2007, p.5) and Commission Regulation (EC) No. 994/2008 (O.J. No. L 271, 11.10.2008, p.3)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "The Secretary of State is the competent authority, and the Environment Agency is appointed as the registry administrator."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "The Convention was signed by the United Kingdom on 12th June 1992 and came into force on 21st March 1994. The text of the Convention can be found at http://unfcc.int/resource/docs/convkp/conveng.pdf."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2010/9780111008881/regulation/2",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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