## Amendment to the Environment Act 1995 

11.  Section 41A of the Environment Act 1995( a ) is amended as follows— 

## Consequential amendments 

## PART 4 

(a) in subsection (1)(b)(i), for “a trading scheme registry” substitute “the Kyoto Protocol Registry”; 

(b) in subsection (6)(a), for “a trading scheme registry” substitute “the Kyoto Protocol Registry”; 

(c) in subsection (7), for the definition of “trading scheme registry” substitute— 

““the Kyoto Protocol Registry” means the registry administered on behalf of the United Kingdom for the purposes of its obligations as a party to the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.”. 

## Partial revocation of the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme Regulations 2012 

12. —(1) The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme Regulations 2012( b ), in so far as they continue to apply in relation to the UK Registry( c ), are revoked. 

(2) In this regulation, “the UK Registry” has the meaning given in regulation 3 of the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme Regulations 2012. 

27th April 2021 

Anne-Marie Trevelyan Parliamentary Under Secretary of State Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy 

## EXPLANATORY NOTE 

## (This note is not part of the Regulations) 

These Regulations are made in exercise of the powers in section 8(1) of, and paragraph 21 of Schedule 7 to, the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (c. 16) in order to address failures of retained EU law to operate effectively and other deficiencies (in particular under section 8(2)(a), (b), (c), (d) and (g)) arising from the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union). 

These Regulations make amendments to legislation in the field of international climate change commitments. Part 2 amends the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) and National Emissions Inventory Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/2903), which relate to projects for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in accordance with the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Part 3 amends Commission Regulation (EU) No 389/2013, which relates to maintaining a registry for the purposes of greenhouse gas emissions obligations under the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Part 4 makes consequential amendments. 

An impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sector is foreseen. 

