Paragraph 22 F1

Article 31 is to be read as if—

(a)

in paragraph 1—

(i)

for “a” in the first place it occurs there were substituted “ the ”;

(ii)

in point (c) after “paragraph 3” there were inserted “ , read with paragraph 3b, ”;

(b)

in paragraph 3—

(i)

in point (a) after “emission report” there were inserted “ or annual activity level report ”;

(ii)

in point (b) at the beginning there were inserted “for the purposes of verifying the operator's emission report,”;

(iii)

after point (b) there were inserted—

“(ba)
for the purposes of verifying the operator's annual activity level report, if a verifier has not carried out a site visit during the verification of an annual activity level report or a baseline data report in the two activity level reporting periods immediately preceding the current activity level reporting period;”;

(iv)

after point (c) there were inserted—

“(ca)
if, during the activity level reporting period, there have been significant changes to the installation or its sub-installations which require significant modifications to the monitoring methodology plan, including those changes referred to in Article 9(5) of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/331;”;

(c)

after paragraph 3 there were inserted—

“3A
The reference in point (b) of paragraph 3 to reporting periods immediately preceding the current reporting period includes reporting periods for the purposes of Directive 2003/87/EC.
3B
In respect of installations within Article 32(5), points (b) and (ba) of paragraph 3 apply as if, in each of those points, for “two” there were substituted “ four ”.”;

(d)

for paragraph 4 there were substituted—

“4
Points (c) and (ca) of paragraph 3 are not applicable where, during the reporting period, there have been only modifications of the default value as referred to in Article 15(3)(h) of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/2066 or Article 9(5)(c) of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/331.”.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Sch. 5 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/1557), arts. 2(1), 36

Notes on Schedule 5

Commencement

I1: Sch. 5 in force at 31.12.2020 immediately after IP completion day, see art. 2(2)(b)