Additional Regulations for Phase II of EU ETS
The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2007 (SI No.1096) were laid before Parliament on 3rd April and entered into force on 1st May. These Regulations specify the document which is the approved national allocation plan for the second scheme phase (1st January 2008 to 31st December 2012) of the European Union’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme for the purposes of the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/925).
These Regulations extend to the United Kingdom. The “EU Emissions Trading Scheme: Approved Phase II National Allocation Plan 2008-2012″ is available from
http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/climatechange/trading/eu/phase2/phase2nap.htm
Regulation 3 amends paragraph 3.4 in Part I of Schedule 1 to the 2005 Regulations with the effect that activities for the manufacture of ceramic products will only be an activity within the scope of the second and subsequent phases of the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme where more than 75 tonnes of products per day are fired in a kiln with a capacity of more than 4 cubic meters, and a setting density of more than 300 kilogrammes per cubic meter.
The full text of the Regulations is available from:
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2007/20071096.htm
Source: www.opsi.gov.uk (accessed 03/05/07)