Scheme for Aviation (Amendment) Regulations, 2011

L.N. 4 of 2011

ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT PLANNING ACT

(CAP. 504)

MALTA RESOURCES AUTHORITY ACT

(CAP. 423)

European Community Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading

Scheme for Aviation (Amendment) Regulations, 2011

IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 61 of the

Environment and Development Planning Act, and by article 28

of the Malta Resources Authority Act the Prime Minister and

the Minister for Resources and Rural Affairs, after consultation

with the Malta Resources Authority, have made the following

regulations

The title of these regulations is the European Community

Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme for Aviation

(Amendment) Regulations, 2011 and they shall be read and

construed as one with the European Community Greenhouse

Gas Emissions Trading Scheme for Aviation Regulations, 2011

hereinafter referred to as “the principal regulations”.

Regulation 4 of the principal regulations shall be

amended as follows

(a) in paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (2) the words

“31st December, 2013” shall be substituted by the words

“31st December, 2012”; and

(b) in paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (5) the words

“31st December, 2013” shall be substituted by the words

“31st December, 2012”.

In regulation 10 of the principal regulations, sub-

regulation (6) shall be substituted as follows

“(6) Each aircraft operator shall

(a) from the monitoring year 2010 in the case

of an aircraft operator for whom Malta is identified as

the administering Member State before the start of the

reporting year 2010; or

(b) from the first reporting year applicable to it

in the case of an aircraft operator for whom Malta is

identified as the administering Member State after the

beginning of the reporting year 2010, monitor emissions

from aircraft which it operates that perform aviation

activities listed in Schedule 1 to these regulations,

during each calendar year and report emissions for

each calendar year in accordance with the approved

monitoring and reporting plan. A report on emissions for

each calendar year shall be submitted to the Authority by

not later than the 31st March of the subsequent year. “.

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