274 tal-2006 - Regolamenti tal-2006 dwar Skema Kummerċjali tal-Komunità Ewropea dwar l-Emissjonijiet ta’ Gassijiet Serra

L.N. 274 of 2006

ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION ACT

(CAP. 435)

European Community Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading

Scheme (Amendment) Regulations, 2006

BY VIRTUE of the powers conferred by article 9 of the

Environment Protection Act, the Minister for Rural Affairs and the

Environment has made the following regulations>–

The title of these regulations is the European Community Citation.

Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) Regulations, L.N. 140 of 2005.

2006 and they shall be read and construed as one with the European

Community Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme Regulations,

2005 hereinafter referred to as “the principal regulations”.

Immediately after sub-regulation (3) of regulation 17 of the Amends regulation

17 of the principal

principal regulations, there shall be added the following new sub- regulations.

regulation>

“(4) There shall be charged by the competent authority a

fee for the opening and maintaining of an account in the registry,

called the Malta Emissions Trading Registry Fee (METRF), to be

paid at the rate set out in Annex 7 to these regulations.”.

Immediately after Annex 6 to the principal regulations, there Addition of Annex

7 to the principal

shall be added the following new Annex>–

regulations.

“Annex 7

Malta Emissions Trading Registry Fee (METRF) referred to in

Regulation 17

Table 1

Fees for opening accounts and annual maintenance of accounts in

the Malta emissions trading registry

Opening of Account

Annual Maintenance

fee based on estimated

fee based on the annual

Operator

average reportable annual

quantity of allowances

emissions in tonnes of CO2

allocated

under

the

equivalent, as per Table 2

National Allocation Plan to

to this Annex, payable on

the operator in respect of

the opening of an account

the installation for which

the account is opened, as

per Table 3 to this Annex,

payable from the first year

after the year in which the

account is opened

Lm100

Lm50

Registered

Person

(Trading)

Lm100

Lm50

Registered Verifier

Table 2

Fees for opening an operator holding account

Estimated average reportable annual

Opening of account fee payable in

emissions

Maltese liri

less than or equal to 50 ktonnes of CO2

equivalent

(annual emissions ≤ 50 k tonnes)

greater than 50 ktonnes and less than or

equal to 500 ktonnes of CO2 equivalent

(50 ktonnes < annual emissions ≤ 500

1,000

ktonnes)

greater than 500 ktonnes of CO2

equivalent

1,500

(annual emissions > 500 ktonnes)

Table 3

Annual maintenance fee for operator holding accounts

Allowance quantity allocated under the

Account maintenance fee payable in

National Allocation Plan for the year for

Maltese liri

which the account maintenance fee is

due

per 100,000 or part thereof

100.”.

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