S.L. 643.6 Art. 3 Applicability. 

These regulations shall apply to:

(a) shipping companies performing activities listed in Schedule 1 resulting in emissions of greenhouse gases specified in respect of those activities and for whom Malta is designated as the administering authority, by virtue of:

(i) being registered in Malta; or

(ii) in the case of shipping companies that are not registered in a Member State, for whom Malta is the Member State with the greatest estimated number of port calls from voyages performed by those shipping companies in the last four (4) monitoring years; or

(iii) in the case of shipping companies that are not registered in a Member State and that did not carry out any voyage falling within the scope of Directive 2003/87/EC in the preceding four (4) monitoring years, to which Malta is the Member State where ships of those shipping companies have arrived or started their first voyage falling within the scope of Directive 2003/87/EC:

Provided that Malta shall remain the administering authority in respect of a shipping company, regardless of subsequent changes in the shipping company’s registration or activities, until those changes are reflected in an updated list adopted by the Commission pursuant to Article 3gf of Directive 2003/87/EC

(b) any other relevant body corporate on which these regulations impose any obligation.Auctioning of TRADING SYSTEM FOR MARITIME TRANSPORT allowances.