The Motor Fuel (Road Vehicle and Mobile Machinery) Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reporting Regulations 2012

Made: 5th December 2012

Laid before Parliament: 6th December 2012

Coming into force: 1st January 2013

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PART 1 — Introductory Provisions

Citation and commencement

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Interpretation

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Definitions of energy products and relevant use

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PART 2 — The Motor Fuel Greenhouse Gas Reporting Requirement

The Motor Fuel Greenhouse Gas Reporting Requirement

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Determinations of amounts and greenhouse gas intensity of energy products for relevant use

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Verifier’s assurance report

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PART 3 — Administration

Administration

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Establishment of accounts

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Power of the Administrator to require further information or evidence

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Closure of accounts

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Managing accounts

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Processing of information and evidence

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Duty to require information from regulated suppliers and applicants for GHG credits

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Power to require information from non-regulated suppliers

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Mass balance system

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Other powers and duties conferred and imposed on the Administrator

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PART 4 — Discharge of reporting requirement

Reliance upon RTF certificates to prove sustainability of renewable transport fuel

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PART 5 — Civil penalties

Civil penalties

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Civil penalty notices

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Objections to civil penalties

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Appeals against civil penalties

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PART 6 — Disclosure of information held by Revenue and Customs

Disclosure of information held by Revenue and Customs

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Further disclosure of information

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Wrongful disclosure

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PART 7 — Review of implementation and Regulations

Review of implementation

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Review of Regulations

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Signed

Signed by the authority of the Secretary of State

Norman Baker — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State — Department for Transport — 2012-12-05

Explanatory note

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Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1972 c.68; section 2(2) was amended by section 27(1)(a) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c. 51) and by section 3(3) and Part 1 of the Schedule to the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c.7). Paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 was inserted by section 28 of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c.51). Paragraph 1A(1)(b) of Schedule 2 was then amended by section 3(3) of the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c.7).

[^f00002]: S.I. 2008/301.

[^f00003]: S.I. 2010/761.

[^f00004]: OJ No L 350, 28.12.1998, p. 58. The Directive has been amended by Commission Directive 2000/71/EC, Directive 2003/17/EC, Regulation (EC) No 1882/2003, Directive 2009/30/EC and Commission Directive 2011/63/EU.

[^f00009]: 1979 c.5. The phrase “excepted vehicle” is defined at section 27 of, and Schedule 1 to, the 1979 Act.

[^f00010]: 1971 c.80.

[^f00014]: S.I. 1999/3107. The Regulations were amended by S.I. 2001/3896, 2003/3078, 2007/1608, 2010/3035 and 2012/2567.

[^f00015]: The International Standard on Assurance Engagements 3000 is set out from page 292 of Part II of the publication entitled “Handbook of International Quality Control, Auditing, Review, Other Assurance, and Related Services Pronouncements” (2010 edition) (ISBN 978-1-60815-052-6) published by the International Federation of Accountants. Copies can be obtained from www.ifac.org.

[^f00018]: 1978 c.30.

[^f00019]: 1979 c.5.

[^f00020]: 2005 c.11.

Editorial notes

Determinations of amounts, energy content and GHGi of energy products

PART 2A — THE GHG EMISSIONS THRESHOLD AND THE GHG REDUCTION OBLIGATION

Application of Part 2A

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The unit GHGi threshold and the GHG reduction obligation

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Calculation, and notification, of amount of GHG reduction obligation

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Data allocation system: information on the origin and place of purchase of an energy product received from multiple sources

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Other powers and duties conferred and imposed on the Administrator

PART 3A — GHG CREDITS

GHG credits: calculation of CO2eq savings

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Applications for GHG credits

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Issue of GHG credits: requirements and supplementary

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Transfers of GHG credits

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Revocation of GHG credits

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Payments

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Reliance upon RTF certificates as evidence in relation to renewable transport fuel

Review

SCHEDULE — Evidence or information to be provided by a supplier to the Administrator under regulation 13(2)

General information

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Information about energy products

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Information about electricity for use in electric road vehicles

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General information about a UER

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UER eligibility requirements and calculation requirements

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