{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-389/article-33",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-389/article-33.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2013/389",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EU) No 389/2013 of 2 May 2013 establishing a Union Registry pursuant to Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, Decisions No 280/2004/EC and No 406/2009/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and repealing Commission Regulations (EU) No 920/2010 and No 1193/2011 (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-389",
  "path": "article/33",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "33",
  "heading": "Closure of accounts and removal of authorised representative on the national administrator’s initiative",
  "text": "1. If the situation giving rise to the suspension of access to accounts pursuant to Article 34 is not resolved within a reasonable period despite repeated notifications, the Secretary of State may instruct the national administrator to close ... those accounts for which access is suspended until the Secretary of State determines that the situation giving rise to the suspension no longer subsists.\n2. If a person holding account ... has a zero balance and no transactions have been recorded for a period of one year, the national administrator may notify the account holder that the person holding account ... will be closed within 40 working days unless the national administrator receives a request that the account be maintained. If the national administrator does not receive any such request from the account holder, the national administrator may close the account.\n3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n4. The national administrator may remove an authorised representative ... if it considers that the approval of the authorised representative ... should have been refused in accordance with Article 24(3), and in particular if it discovers that the documents and identification information provided upon nomination were incomplete, out-of-date or otherwise inaccurate or false.\n5. In accordance with Article 110c, the account holder may appeal against—\n(a) a decision to close an account under paragraph 1 within the period of 30 days beginning with the day on which the account is closed; or\n(b) a decision to remove an authorised representative under paragraph 4 within the period of 30 days beginning with the day on which the authorised representative is removed.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 33(1) substituted (1.5.2021) by The Greenhouse Gas Emissions (Kyoto Protocol Registry) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/511), regs. 1, 4(21)(b)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 33(1) omitted (1.5.2021) by virtue of The Greenhouse Gas Emissions (Kyoto Protocol Registry) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/511), regs. 1, 4(21)(b)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 33(2) omitted (1.5.2021) by virtue of The Greenhouse Gas Emissions (Kyoto Protocol Registry) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/511), regs. 1, 4(21)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Art. 33(3) omitted (1.5.2021) by virtue of The Greenhouse Gas Emissions (Kyoto Protocol Registry) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/511), regs. 1, 4(21)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Art. 33(4) omitted (1.5.2021) by virtue of The Greenhouse Gas Emissions (Kyoto Protocol Registry) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/511), regs. 1, 4(21)(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Art. 33(5) substituted (1.5.2021) by The Greenhouse Gas Emissions (Kyoto Protocol Registry) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/511), regs. 1, 4(21)(f)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in Art. 33 heading substituted (1.5.2021) by The Greenhouse Gas Emissions (Kyoto Protocol Registry) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/511), regs. 1, 4(21)(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2013/389/article/33",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:48:42.376780+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}