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The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Approved National Allocation Plan) Regulations 2005

S.I. 2005/1387 · Made 24 May 2005

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

Made 24th May 2005

Laid before Parliament 24th May 2005

Coming into force 14th June 2005

The Secretary of State, being a Minister designatedf1 for the purposes of subsection (2) of section 2 of the European Communities Act 1972f2 in relation to greenhouse gas emission allowance trading, in exercise of the powers conferred upon her by that subsection, makes the following Regulations:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

S.I. 2004/1984.

f2

1972 c. 68. Section 57(1) of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46) provides that despite the transfer to the Scottish Ministers of functions in relation to observing and implementing obligations under Community law by virtue of that Act, any function of a Minister of the Crown shall continue to be exercisable by him as regards Scotland for the purposes specified in section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972.

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Specification of approved national allocation plan
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Approved National Allocation Plan) Regulations 2005 and shall come into force on 14th June 2005.

2Specification of approved national allocation plan

For the purposes of the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme Regulations 2005f1, the document entitled “Approved National Allocation Plan 2005-2007” published by the Secretary of State on 24th May 2005 is specified as the approved national allocation plan for the three year period beginning on 1st January 2005.

Signature

Elliot Morley

Minister of State

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

24th May 2005

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations specify the document which is the approved national allocation plan for the first three-year period (beginning on 1st January 2005) of the European Union’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme for the purposes of the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/925). These Regulations extend to the United Kingdom.

A full Regulatory Impact Assessment has been prepared and placed in the library of each House of Parliament. Copies can be obtained from National Climate Change Policy Division, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Ashdown House, 123 Victoria Street, London SW1E 6DE.