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Paragraph 22 Emissions targets: errorsI1

United Kingdom

(1)

This paragraph applies where the amount of an installation's reportable emissions used to calculate the installation's emission targets (including revised emissions targets under F1paragraph 19C or 20) for scheme years in F2the 2021-2025 allocation period or the 2026-2030 period is amended following a determination of emissions under article 45.

(2)

The regulator may calculate revised emissions targets for the current and future scheme years in the F3... period and, if the regulator does so, the regulator must vary the installation's hospital or small emitter permit under paragraph 6 of Schedule 6 to include those emissions targets.

(3)

In calculating revised emissions targets under sub-paragraph (2), the regulator may take account of what revised emissions targets for past scheme years in the F4... period calculated under this paragraph might have been if the determination had been made earlier (but may not calculate revised emissions targets for past years).

(4)

In this paragraph—

(a)

a reference to reportable emissions used to calculate emissions targets for the 2021-2025 allocation period includes a reference to reportable emissions within the meaning of GGETSR 2012; and

(b)

a reference to a determination of emissions under article 45 includes, in the case of reportable emissions referred to in paragraph (a), a reference to a determination of emissions under regulation 44(3) of GGETSR 2012 or Article 70(1) of the Monitoring and Reporting Regulation 2012.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Words in Sch. 7 para. 22(1) substituted (7.2.2022) by The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/1455), arts. 2, 25(6)

F2

Words in Sch. 7 para. 22(1) substituted (31.3.2025) by The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2025 (S.I. 2025/124), arts. 2, 31(8)(a)

F3

Word in Sch. 7 para. 22(2) omitted (31.3.2025) by virtue of The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2025 (S.I. 2025/124), arts. 2, 31(8)(b)

F4

Word in Sch. 7 para. 22(3) omitted (31.3.2025) by virtue of The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2025 (S.I. 2025/124), arts. 2, 31(8)(c)

Commencement

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Sch. 7 para. 22 in force at 12.11.2020, see art. 2(1)