{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greenhouse-gas-emissions-trading-scheme-amendment-no-2-order-2025/article-34",
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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/34",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "34",
  "heading": "Article 2 amended (definitions)",
  "text": "(1) Article 2 is amended as follows.\n(2) In paragraph 1—\n(a) in point (1) (definition of “incumbent installation”) for “2026-2030” substitute “2027-2030”;\n(b) in point (14)(b) (definition of “baseline period”) for “2026-2030” substitute “2027-2030”;\n(c) after point (25) insert—\n“(26) “first stage” and “second stage”, in relation to an application under Article 4 for free allocation in the 2027-2030 allocation period, must be construed in accordance with that Article.”.\n(3) After paragraph 3 insert—\n“4. References in this Regulation to benchmarks for an allocation period are references to the benchmarks for the allocation period set out in Annex 8; but if no benchmarks for the 2027-2030 allocation period are set out in Annex 8 before the regulator is required to calculate the preliminary annual number of allowances to be allocated for scheme years in that period, the benchmarks for the 2021-2025 allocation period and the 2026 allocation period are to be used for the calculation.”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 34 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/34",
    "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."
}