{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greenhouse-gas-emissions-trading-scheme-order-2020/article-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greenhouse-gas-emissions-trading-scheme-order-2020/article-16.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2020/1265",
  "legislation_title": "The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme Order 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greenhouse-gas-emissions-trading-scheme-order-2020",
  "path": "article/16",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "UK Emissions Trading Scheme",
  "text": "(1) This Order establishes a trading scheme, known as the “UK Emissions Trading Scheme” or “UK ETS”.\n(2) The purpose of the UK ETS is to limit, or encourage the limitation of, the emission of greenhouse gases in the trading period from the carrying out of—\n(a) regulated activities by operators of installations; ...\n(b) aviation activities by aircraft operators;\n(c) maritime activities by maritime operators.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in art. 16(2)(a) omitted (1.7.2026) by virtue of The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) (Extension to Maritime Activities) Order 2026 (S.I. 2026/392), art. 1(1), Sch. 2 para. 5(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Art. 16(2)(c) inserted (1.7.2026) by The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) (Extension to Maritime Activities) Order 2026 (S.I. 2026/392), art. 1(1), Sch. 2 para. 5(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "Section 92(1) of the Climate Change Act 2008 defines “greenhouse gas”."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 16 in force at 12.11.2020, see art. 2(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/1265/article/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:23:06.111058+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."
}