{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-vehicle-emissions-trading-schemes-order-2023/article-68",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2023/9780348252453",
  "legislation_title": "The Vehicle Emissions Trading Schemes Order 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-vehicle-emissions-trading-schemes-order-2023",
  "path": "article/68",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "68",
  "heading": "Measuring activity in the VCTS",
  "text": "(1) The number of units of activity that must be accounted for by a VCTS participant for a scheme year is the sum of the number of grams of CO2 per kilometre emitted by each NZE van of which the participant is the manufacturer and which is registered during the scheme year.\n(2) For the purposes of this article, the number of grams of CO2 per kilometre emitted by an NZE van is the number specified in that van’s specific emissions of CO2, with that number having been, where applicable—\n(a) reduced in accordance with paragraph (3); or\n(b) corrected in accordance with Article 13(3) of Regulation (EU) 2019/631 (lack of correspondence of CO2 emission and fuel consumption values).\n(3) An NZE van’s specific emissions of CO2 are reduced by the number of grams of CO2 per kilometre specified in the van’s certificate of conformity as CO2 savings achieved by any eco-innovation, unless—\n(a) the Secretary of State has given a notice to the administrator in accordance with Article 12(2)(b) of Regulation (EU) 427/2014 which relates to the eco-innovation; and\n(b) the notice was given during the scheme year which immediately preceded the scheme year for which a VCTS participant’s number of units of activity in the VCTS is measured.\n(4) A VCTS participant’s number of units of activity during a scheme year, if not a whole number, is calculated to three decimal places only.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Article 12(2)(b) is inserted by article 112(3) of this Order."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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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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