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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greenhouse-gas-emissions-trading-scheme-lime-benchmark-england-order-2026/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greenhouse-gas-emissions-trading-scheme-lime-benchmark-england-order-2026/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2026/566",
  "legislation_title": "The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Lime Benchmark) (England) Order 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greenhouse-gas-emissions-trading-scheme-lime-benchmark-england-order-2026",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Free allocation in 2027 scheme year: incumbent installation with lime product benchmark sub-installation",
  "text": "For the purpose of calculating the preliminary annual number of allowances to be allocated in respect of incumbent installations within the meaning of point (1) of Article 2(1) of the Free Allocation Regulation located in England for the 2027 scheme year under Article 16 of that Regulation or Article 3a of the Activity Level Changes Regulation, the Free Allocation Regulation applies as if the product benchmark in Annex 8 to that Regulation for lime were 0.798 (and not 0.725).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "EUR 2019/331, amended by S.I. 2020/1557, 2021/1455, 2022/1173, 2023/850, 2023/1387, 2024/192, 2024/1366, 2025/100, 2025/124 and 2026/278. Article 4(1) of S.I. 2020/1265 defines “Free Allocation Regulation” as Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/331 of 19 December 2018, as it forms part of domestic law."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "EUR 2019/1842, amended by S.I. 2020/1557, 2022/1173, 2023/850, 2023/1387, 2025/100, 2025/124 and 2026/278. Article 4(1) of S.I. 2020/1265 defines “Activity Level Changes Regulation” as Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1842 of 31 October 2019, as it forms part of domestic law."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/566/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:00:48.963152+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."
}