S.L. 643.2 Art. 16Reporting of verified annual emissions.

(1) An operator of an installation shall report annual emissions, monitored in accordance with regulation 15, for each monitoring year in accordance with:

(a) the principles set out in Schedule 3; and

(b) relevant decisions and regulations adopted by the Commission pursuant to Directive 2003/87/EC; and

(c) any other requirements made by the Authority in respect of reporting of emissions of greenhouse gases from activities listed in Schedule 1.

(2) An operator of an installation shall submit to the Authority an annual report on the emissions from that installation for a monitoring year by not later than 31st March of the subsequent year.

(3) The report submitted by an operator of an installation pursuant to sub-regulation (2) shall be verified by a verifier in accordance with:

(a) the principles set out in Schedule 4; and,

(b) relevant decisions and regulations adopted by the Commission pursuant to Directive 2003/87/EC; and

(c) any other requirements made by the Authority in respect of verification of annual emission reports for INSTALLATIONS

emissions from installations.

The verifier shall issue a verification report.

(4) A verification report shall be submitted by the operator of an installation to the Authority with an annual emissions report submitted. The operator shall also enter the amount of emissions reported in the verified annual emissions report for a monitoring year into the Union Registry, by 31st March of the subsequent year.

(5) Where an operator of an installation fails to submit an annual emissions report for a monitoring year that has been verified as satisfactory by the 31st March of the subsequent year, the national registry administrator shall not allow the transfer of allowances or any other accounting units out of the operator holding account until a report from the operator in respect of that installation has been verified as satisfactory: Provided that the national registry administrator shall not prevent the surrender or cancellation of allowances in accordance with regulation 19, or the issuance of allowances in exchange for CERs or ERUs in accordance with regulation 20.

(6) The operator of an installation for which an annual emissions report is to be verified shall notify the Authority and the National Accreditation Board – Malta of the planned date and place of the verification and the identity of the verifier who will perform the verification, by not later than thirty days prior to the date when the verification is to be performed.