# The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) Order 2020, Paragraph 12: Article 8 amended (content and submission of the monitoring methodology plan)

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

(1) Article 8 is amended as follows.
(2) In paragraph 1 for “Articles 4(2)b and 5(2) shall draw up” substitute “ Article 4 or 5 must, except where a monitoring methodology plan has already been approved in relation to the installation under this Article, draw up ”.
(3) In paragraph 3 omit “and for the purposes of Article 12(3) of Regulation (EU) No 601/2012,”.
(4) Omit paragraphs 4 and 5.
(5) After paragraph 3 insert—
“6 Where the operator has submitted a monitoring methodology plan to the regulator, the regulator must, by notice to the operator:
(a) if the plan is in accordance with this Regulation, approve it; or
(b) reject it.
7 A notice under paragraph 6 must be given:
(a) where the monitoring methodology plan is submitted with an application for free allocation in the 2026-2030 allocation period under Article 4, on or before 31 December 2025;
(b) where the monitoring methodology plan is submitted with an application for free allocation under Article 5, as soon as reasonably practicable after the application is made.”

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/1557/schedule/1/paragraph/12 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/greenhouse-gas-emissions-trading-scheme-amendment-order-2020/schedule-1/paragraph-12
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