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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greenhouse-gas-emissions-trading-scheme-amendment-no-2-order-2025/article-31",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2025/124",
  "legislation_title": "The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greenhouse-gas-emissions-trading-scheme-amendment-no-2-order-2025",
  "path": "article/31",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": "Schedule 7 amended (hospitals and small emitters)",
  "text": "(1) Schedule 7 is amended as follows.\n“2026-2030 period” substituted for “2026-2030 allocation period”\n(2) Except as provided in paragraph (7), for “2026-2030 allocation period” in each place (including in paragraph headings) substitute “2026-2030 period”.\nParagraph 1 amended (interpretation)\n(3) In paragraph 1(1) in the definition of “conversion notice” for “or 23A” substitute “, 23A or 23B”.\nParagraph 3 amended (hospital or small emitter status)\n(4) In paragraph 3(6) for “in the allocation period” substitute “in the period”.\nParagraph 18 amended (emissions targets: calculation of later targets where initial targets based on estimates)\n(5) In paragraph 18(1) for “an allocation period” substitute “the 2021-2025 allocation period or the 2026-2030 period”.\nParagraph 19A amended (capacity increases: application to increase emissions targets)\n(6) After paragraph 19A(5) insert—\n“(6) Where an application is made to increase an installation’s emissions targets for scheme years in the 2027-2030 allocation period, the regulator must not consider the application before 1st February 2026 unless, before that date, benchmarks for the 2027-2030 allocation period are set out in Annex 8 to the Free Allocation Regulation.”.\nParagraph 19G amended (capacity increases: interpretation)\n(7) In paragraph 19G(1) in the definition of “benchmark” in paragraph (a)—\n(a) in sub-paragraph (i) for “, for scheme years in that allocation period” substitute “or the 2026 scheme year, for scheme years in that allocation period or that scheme year”;\n(b) in sub-paragraph (ii) for “2026-2030 allocation period” substitute “2027-2030 allocation period”.\nParagraph 22 amended (emissions targets: errors)\n(8) In paragraph 22—\n(a) in sub-paragraph (1) for “an allocation period” substitute “the 2021-2025 allocation period or the 2026-2030 period”;\n(b) in sub-paragraph (2) omit “allocation”;\n(c) in sub-paragraph (3) omit “allocation”.\nParagraph 23B inserted\n(9) After paragraph 23A insert—\n“End of hospital or small emitter status: voluntary exit of status for 2027-2030 allocation period\n23B. (1) This paragraph applies where the operator of an installation included in the hospital and small emitter list for 2026-2030 notifies the regulator on or before 30th June 2026 as part of the second stage of an application for free allocation in the 2027-2030 allocation period under Article 4(1a)(b)(i) of the Free Allocation Regulation that—\n(a) the operator wishes the application to proceed because the operator does not wish the installation to be a hospital or small emitter for the scheme years in the 2027-2030 allocation period; and\n(b) the UK ETS authority informs the regulator under Article 15a(4) of that Regulation that the application is valid.\n(2) The regulator must, as soon as reasonably practicable, give a notice (a “conversion notice”) to the operator.”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 31 in force at 31.3.2025, see art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/124/article/31",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:20:49.958171+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."
}