S.L. 643.3 ст. 13Reporting of verified annual emissions.

(1) An aircraft operator shall report emissions, monitored in accordance with regulation 12, 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 aviation activities.

(2) An aircraft operator shall submit to the Authority an annual report on the emissions from an aviation activity listed in Schedule 1 for each year when such an activity is performed by not later than 31st March of the subsequent year.

(3) The report submitted by an aircraft operator 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 emissions from aviation activities. The verifier shall issue a verification report.

(4) A verification report shall be submitted by the aircraft operator 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 aircraft operator fails to submit an annual emissions report for a monitoring year that has been verified as st satisfactory by 31 March of the year subsequent to that monitoring year, the national registry administrator shall not allow the transfer of allowances or any other accounting units out of the aircraft operator holding account of that aircraft operator until a report from that aircraft operator for that monitoring year has been verified as satisfactory: Provided that the national registry administrator shall not prevent the surrender or cancellation of allowances in accordance with regulation 16, or the issuance of allowances in exchange for CERs or ERUs in accordance with regulations 17 or 18.

(6) The aircraft operator 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.

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(7) From 1 January 2025, an aircraft operator shall report non-CO aviation effects from each aircraft that it operates during 2 the previous calendar year, as monitored in accordance with regulation 12(9), and in accordance with relevant decisions and regulations as adopted by the Commission pursuant to Directive 2003/87/EC.

(8) The report submitted by an aircraft operator pursuant to sub-regulation (7) shall be verified by a verifier in accordance with the relevant decisions and regulations as adopted by the Commission pursuant to Directive 2003/87/EC.

(9) In respect of reports submitted pursuant to sub-regulation (2) and sub-regulation (7), where an aircraft operator operates on a very limited number of aerodrome pairs, or on a very limited number of State pairs that are subject to offsetting requirements, or on a very limited number of State pairs that are not subject to offsetting requirements, that aircraft operator may request the Authority not to publish such data at the aircraft operator level, explaining why disclosure would be considered to harm its commercial interests. Based on such a request, the Authority may request the Commission to publish that data at a higher level of aggregation.