{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greenhouse-gas-emissions-trading-scheme-amendment-regulations-2014/regulation-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2014/3125",
  "legislation_title": "The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greenhouse-gas-emissions-trading-scheme-amendment-regulations-2014",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendments to definitions: aviation",
  "text": "In regulation 20—\n(a) after the definition of “emissions plan”, insert—\n““Eurocontrol” means the European organisation for air safety navigation;\n“excluded aviation activity” means—\n(a) in respect of the scheme year 2013, an activity consisting in—\n(i) a flight departing from, or arriving in, an aerodrome situated in any country other than an EEA state or Croatia; or\n(ii) an outermost region flight;\n(b) in respect of any other scheme year, an activity consisting in—\n(i) a flight departing from, or arriving in, an aerodrome situated in any country other than an EEA state; or\n(ii) an outermost region flight;\n“excluded aviation emissions” means aviation emissions arising from an excluded aviation activity;”;\n(b) after the definition of “member State”, insert—\n““non-UK operator” has the meaning given in regulation 24(2);\n“outermost region” means—\n(a) in respect of the scheme year 2013, the Canary Islands, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Réunion, Saint-Martin, the Azores, or Madeira;\n(b) in respect of any other scheme year, the Canary Islands, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Mayotte, Réunion, Saint-Martin, the Azores, or Madeira;\n“outermost region flight” means—\n(a) in respect of the scheme year 2013, a flight between an aerodrome located in an outermost region and an aerodrome located in—\n(i) a different outermost region;\n(ii) an area of an EEA state which is not an outermost region; or\n(iii) Croatia;\n(b) in respect of any other scheme year, a flight between an aerodrome located in an outermost region and an aerodrome located in—\n(i) a different outermost region; or\n(ii) an area of an EEA state which is not an outermost region;”; and\n(c) after the definition of “registered office”, insert—\n““Small Emitters Tool Regulation” means Commission Regulation (EU) No 606/2010 on the approval of a simplified tool developed by the European organisation for air safety navigation (Eurocontrol) to estimate the fuel consumption of certain small emitting aircraft operators, as amended from time to time;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ No L 175, 10.7.2010, p 25."
    }
  ],
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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."
}