Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. No. 1849 of 2015).

These Regulations amend the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme Regulations 2012 by, among other things: adding Schedule 6A; inserting inserts regulations 58A and 58B; providing for rights of appeal in respect of decisions of the regulator or notifications give to the operator of an excluded installation, in relation to changes of capacity of activity levels which occur while an installation is an excluded installation. Schedule 6A provides for the allocation of allowances to operators of installations which cease to be excluded installations, and for the adjustment of such allocations, in respect of changes in the capacity or activity level of the installation which occurred while it was an excluded installation. Regulation 58A provides for a penalty when an operator of an installation which ceases to be an excluded installation fails to notify the regulator of a significant capacity reduction or partial cessation which occurred while the installation is was excluded installation. Regulation 58B provides for a penalty when an operator of an excluded installation which ceases to be an excluded installation fails to notify the regulator that the operator has suspended the carrying out of regulated activities at the installation.