# The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme Order 2020, Paragraph 22


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.”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/1265/schedule/5/paragraph/22 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/greenhouse-gas-emissions-trading-scheme-order-2020/schedule-5/paragraph-22
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