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CHAPTER 4U.K.Monitoring and reporting aviation emissions

InterpretationU.K.

31.  In this Chapter, any reference to a numbered Article is to that Article of the Monitoring and Reporting Regulation.

Application for an emissions plan by a UK administered operatorU.K.

32.—[F1(1) Subject to paragraphs (3), (4), (6) and (7), a UK administered operator (“A”) must apply to the regulator for a monitoring plan where required by Article 51(1) and within the period of time required by that Article.]

(2) That application must contain a [F2draft] plan to monitor A's aviation emissions (together with supporting documents) submitted under Article 12(1).

(3) If A has previously been issued with an emissions plan—

(a)an application under paragraph (1) may not be made without the agreement of the regulator; and

(b)any plan issued under regulation 34(1)(a) replaces the plan that has previously been issued.

(4) Where an application is made by virtue of the second or third sub-paragraphs of Article 51(1), the application must include a satisfactory explanation of why it could not have been made earlier.

(5) Without prejudice to paragraph (1), a UK administered operator who has not previously been issued with an emissions plan may make an application in accordance with paragraph (2) at any time.

(6) If A is a transferred operator within regulation 24(1)(a), and has previously applied to another member State for a monitoring plan in accordance with Article 51(1)—

(a)this regulation applies to A as it applies to a UK administered operator who is not a transferred operator; but

(b)the application to the regulator may be made within the period of 8 weeks beginning with the date on which A became a UK administered operator.

[F3(7) This regulation does not apply to a UK administered operator who commences aviation activities during the scheme years [F42015 to 2023].]

Textual Amendments

[F5Application for an emissions plan by a UK administered operator: [F6activities during 2015 to 2023] U.K.

32A.—(1) This regulation applies to a UK administered operator (“B”) who commences aviation activities other than excluded aviation activities during [F7the scheme years 2015 to 2023 (“the relevant activities”)].

(2) Subject to paragraphs (3) to (7), B must apply to the regulator for a monitoring plan by the application date.

[F8(3) Where B is unable to foresee the date on which B is due to commence the relevant activities, B must—

(a)where the relevant activities are due to commence during the scheme years 2017 or 2018, apply to the regulator for a monitoring plan without delay after B is aware that B will commence these activities and in any event by the later of 6 weeks after 31st March 2018 or 6 weeks after the date on which the relevant activities commence;

(b)where the relevant activities are due to commence during a scheme year other than 2017 or 2018, apply to the regulator for a monitoring plan without delay after B is aware that B will commence the relevant activities and in any event by a date no later than 6 weeks after the date on which the relevant activities commence; and

(c)include with the application a written explanation of why B was unable to comply with paragraph (2).]

(4) Paragraph (5) applies where B is unable to comply with paragraph (2) by reason only that B’s administering member State, referred to in Article 18a of the Directive, is not known by the application date.

(5) Where this paragraph applies B must—

(a)apply to the regulator for a monitoring plan [F9in respect of the relevant activities], without delay once information on B’s administering member State becomes available; and

(b)include with the application a written explanation of why B was unable to comply with paragraph (2).

(6) Paragraph (7) applies where B was a non-UK operator and becomes a UK administered operator after the transferred operator cut-off date.

(7) Where this paragraph applies, B must apply to the regulator for a monitoring plan by the transferred operator application date.

[F10(8) In this regulation—

(a)“application date” means—

(i)where the relevant activities are due to commence during the scheme year 2015, the later of 31st January 2015 or the date which is 4 months before the date on which the 2015 activities are due to commence;

(ii)where the relevant activities are due to commence during the scheme year 2016, the date which is 4 months before the date on which the 2016 activities are due to commence;

(iii)where the relevant activities are due to commence during the scheme years 2017 or 2018, the later of 30th April 2018 or the date which is 4 months before the date on which these activities are due to commence; and

(iv)where the relevant activities are due to commence during the scheme years 2019 to 2023, the date which is 4 months before the date on which these activities are due to commence;

(b)“transferred operator application date” means—

(i)where the relevant activities are due to commence during the scheme year 2015, the later of 31st January 2015 or the last day of the 8 week period beginning with the date on which B becomes a UK administered operator;

(ii)where the relevant activities are due to commence during the scheme year 2016, the last day of the 8 week period beginning with the date on which B becomes a UK administered operator;

(iii)where the relevant activities are due to commence during the scheme years 2017 or 2018, the later of 30th April 2018 or the last day of the 8 week period beginning with the date on which B becomes a UK administered operator; and

(iv)where the relevant activities are due to commence during the scheme years 2019 to 2023, the last day of the 8 week period beginning with the date on which B becomes a UK administered operator; and

(c)“transferred operator cut-off date” means the date which is 6 months before the date on which the relevant activities are due to commence.]

Textual Amendments

Application for an emissions plan by a UK administered operator: [F11post-2023] activitiesU.K.

32B.—(1) This regulation applies—

(a)to a UK administered operator (“C”) who commences only excluded aviation activities during the scheme years [F122015 to 2023]; and

(b)where C carries out aviation activities after 31st December [F132023] (“ [F11post-2023] activities”).

(2) Subject to paragraphs (3) to (7), C must apply to the regulator for a monitoring plan in respect of C’s [F11post-2023] activities by a date which is no later than 4 months before the date on which C’s [F11post-2023] activities are due to commence (“the application date”).

(3) Where C is unable to foresee the date on which C is due to commence [F11post-2023] activities, C must—

(a)apply to the regulator for a monitoring plan in respect of C’s [F11post-2023] activities without delay after C is aware that C will commence the [F11post-2023] activities and in any event by a date no later than 6 weeks after the date on which the [F11post-2023] activities commence; and

(b)include with the application a written explanation of why C was unable to comply with paragraph (2).

(4) Paragraph (5) applies where C is unable to comply with paragraph (2) by reason only that C’s administering member State, referred to in Article 18a of the Directive, is not known by the application date.

(5) Where this paragraph applies, C must—

(a)apply to the regulator for a monitoring plan in respect of C’s [F11post-2023] activities without delay once information on C’s administering member State becomes available; and

(b)include with the application a written explanation of why C was unable to comply with paragraph (2).

(6) Paragraph (7) applies where C was a non-UK operator and becomes a UK administered operator after the transferred operator cut-off date.

(7) Where this paragraph applies, C must apply to the regulator for a monitoring plan by the transferred operator application date.

(8) In this regulation—

(a)“transferred operator application date” means the last day of the 8 week period beginning with the date on which C becomes a UK administered operator; and

(b)“transferred operator cut-off date” means the date which is 6 months before the [F11post-2023] activities are due to commence.

Textual Amendments

Application for an emissions plan by a UK administered operator: generalU.K.

32C.—(1) An application for a monitoring plan under regulation 32A or 32B must include a draft plan to monitor the UK administered operator’s aviation emissions, together with the supporting documents which are required to be submitted under Article 12(1).

(2) If a UK administered operator has previously been issued with an emissions plan (“the existing plan”)—

(a)an application under regulation 32A or 32B may not be made without the agreement of the regulator; and

(b)any plan issued under regulation 34(1)(a) replaces the existing plan.]

Textual Amendments

Requirement to notify the regulator if an emissions plan is not applied for [F14before 1st January 2015] U.K.

33.—(1) [F15Subject to paragraph (4), without] prejudice to regulation 32(1), a person (“B”) who becomes a UK administered operator after 31st December 2012 must by the relevant date—

(a)apply to the regulator in accordance with regulation 32, or

(b)notify the regulator in accordance with paragraph (2).

(2) The notification must state that B does not expect to commence an aviation activity within the four-month period beginning with the relevant date.

(3) For the purposes of this regulation, “the relevant date” is the last day of the period of 12 weeks beginning with the date on which B became a UK administered operator.

[F16(4) This regulation does not apply after 31st December 2014.]

Textual Amendments

[F17Requirement to notify the regulator if an emissions plan is not applied for on or after 1st January 2015U.K.

33A.—(1) Where a person (“B”)—

(a)becomes a UK administered operator on or after 1st January 2015; but

(b)is not required to apply for a monitoring plan under regulation 32 or 32A,

B must, by the relevant date, notify the regulator in accordance with paragraph (2).

(2) Where—

(a)the relevant date is before 1st September [F182023], the notification must state that—

(i)B does not expect to commence an aviation activity within the four-month period beginning with the relevant date; or

(ii)B does expect to commence an aviation activity within the four-month period beginning with the relevant date, but B expects to carry out only excluded aviation activities within that four-month period;

(b)the relevant date is on or after 1st September [F182023], the notification must state that B does not expect to commence an aviation activity within the four-month period beginning with the relevant date.

(3) For the purposes of this regulation, the “relevant date” is the last day of the period of 12 weeks beginning with the date on which B became a UK administered operator.]

Textual Amendments

Issue of an emissions planU.K.

34.—(1) Where a UK administered operator (“A”) has made an application under [F19regulation 32, 32A or 32B,] the regulator must, by the notice of determination of the application—

(a)issue to A a plan setting out how A's aviation emissions must be monitored; or

(b)where paragraph (2) applies, refuse the application.

(2) This paragraph applies where—

(a)the regulator is not satisfied that the plan proposed in the application complies with the Monitoring and Reporting Regulation; and

(b)A has not agreed to amendments of the plan that so satisfy the regulator.

(3) A plan issued under paragraph (1)(a) must contain—

(a)the provisions of the plan as proposed in the application, or with amendments as mentioned in paragraph (2)(b); and

(b)any conditions included pursuant to regulation 36(1).

(4) Where the application is refused—

(a)the regulator must state in the notice under paragraph (1)(b) what changes must be made to the application if a plan is to be issued; and

(b)A must (or, in the case of an application under regulation 32(5), may) resubmit the amended application within the period of 31 days beginning with the date of service of that notice.

(5) This regulation applies to the resubmission of an application as it applies to the original application, but for that purpose the references to the period of two months in paragraph 2(1)(a) and (2)(b) of Schedule 3 are to be read as a reference to a period of 24 days.

Textual Amendments

Monitoring and reporting emissionsU.K.

35.—(1) [F20Subject to paragraph (5), once] a UK administered operator (“A”) has been issued with an emissions plan, A must monitor aviation emissions for each scheme year in which A is a UK aircraft operator.

(2) [F21Subject to paragraph (5), monitoring] under paragraph (1) must be carried out in accordance with—

(a)the Monitoring and Reporting Regulation; and

(b)A's emissions plan (including the written procedures supplementing that plan).

(3) [F22Subject to paragraphs (6) and (7),] A must prepare a verified report of aviation emissions, for the whole of each such scheme year, in accordance with the Monitoring and Reporting Regulation and the Verification Regulation.

[F23(4) Subject to paragraphs (6) to (8), the report prepared under paragraph (3) must be submitted to the regulator—

(a)for the scheme year 2018, by 11th March 2019; or

(b)for any other scheme year, by 31st March in the year following that scheme year.]

[F24(5) The obligation to monitor aviation emissions does not apply in respect of excluded aviation emissions for the scheme years [F252015 to 2023].

(6) The obligation to prepare and to submit to the regulator a verified report of aviation emissions does not apply—

(a)in respect of excluded aviation emissions, for the scheme years beginning with 2013 and ending with [F262023]; or

(b)where, for the scheme years 2013 or 2014, A was an exempt non-commercial air transport operator.

[F27(7) The report shall be considered verified in accordance with the Verification Regulation where—

(a)either—

(i)A has annual reportable emissions of less than 25,000 tonnes, or

(ii)A has annual reportable emissions of less than 3,000 tonnes other than from an outermost region flight, or flights departing from, or arriving in, an aerodrome situated in any country other than an EEA state, and

(b)A has determined its emissions using the small emitters tool approved under the Small Emitters Tool Regulation and populated with data by Eurocontrol.]

(8) The verified report for the scheme year 2013 must be submitted to the regulator by 31st March 2015.]

Textual Amendments

Emissions plan conditionsU.K.

36.—(1) Each regulator (“R”) must ensure that the emissions plan of a UK administered operator (“A”) for which R is the regulator includes any conditions that R from time to time considers necessary to give proper effect to—

(a)the Monitoring and Reporting Regulation; and

(b)the Verification Regulation.

(2) A must comply with any condition included in A's emissions plan.

Variation of an emissions planU.K.

37.—(1) The regulator may, by giving notice to a UK administered operator (“A”), make any variation of A's emissions plan that the regulator considers necessary in consequence of a report made by A under Article 69.

(2) The regulator may, by giving notice to A, vary A's emissions plan where—

(a)A applies to the regulator for an amendment to the emissions plan, pursuant to a condition of the plan; or

(b)A has failed to comply with a requirement in the emissions plan to apply for such an amendment.

(3) The regulator may, by giving notice to a UK administered operator, vary an emissions plan in order to comply with the regulator's duty under regulation 36(1) or 89(4).

[F28(3A) The regulator may, by giving notice to a UK administered operator, vary an emissions plan in order to take account of any amendments to the Directive which may be made from time to time.]

(4) A notice given under paragraph (1), (2)(b) or (3) may specify a period within which a fee for the variation of the emissions plan must be paid.

Textual Amendments

Variation of a benchmarking planU.K.

38.  The regulator may, by giving notice to a UK administered operator (“B”), vary B's benchmarking plan where B applies to the regulator under paragraph 4(1) of Schedule 7 or paragraph 4(1) of Schedule 8.

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