Statutory Instruments
2021 No. 749
Climate Change
The Climate Change Act 2008 (Credit Limit) Order 2021
Made
23rd June 2021
Coming into force
24th June 2021
A draft of this instrument was laid before and approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament, in accordance with sections 11(6) and 91(1) of the Climate Change Act 2008 (“the Act”)( 1 ).
Before the draft was so laid, the Secretary of State—
(a) took into account the advice of the Committee on Climate Change under section 34(1)(b) in relation to the 2023-2027 budgetary period in accordance with section 11(7)(a) of the Act; and
(b) consulted the Scottish Ministers, the Welsh Ministers and the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs in Northern Ireland in accordance with section 11(7)(b) of the Act( 2 ).
Accordingly, the Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 11(4) and (5) of the Act, makes the following Order:
Citation and coming into force
1. This Order may be cited as the Climate Change Act 2008 (Credit Limit) Order 2021 and comes into force on the day after the day on which it is made.
Limit on the net amount of carbon units
2. —(1) The limit on the net amount of carbon units( 3 ) that may be credited to the net UK carbon account for the 2023-2027 budgetary period is 55,000,000 carbon units.
(2) Carbon units credited to or debited from the net UK carbon account as a result of the operation of the EU ETS in respect of each year of the 2023-2027 budgetary period in accordance with regulations made under section 27(3) of the Climate Change Act 2008 do not count towards the limit in paragraph (1).
(3) In this article, “EU ETS” means the EU Emissions Trading System established by Directive 2003/87/EC 4 ) and includes any replacement for that emissions trading system that has effect for any part of the 2023-2027 budgetary period.
Anne-Marie Trevelyan
Minister of State for Business, Energy and Clean Growth
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
23rd June 2021
See the definitions of “national authority” and “the relevant Northern Ireland department” in sections 95 and 96.
See the definition of “carbon units” in regulation 3 of the Carbon Accounting Regulations 2009 ( S.I. 2009/1257 ) which is made under section 26(1) of the Climate Change Act 2008.
OJ No L 275, 25.10.2003, p32; as last amended by Commission Delegated Decision (EU) 2020/1071 (OJ No L 234, 21.7.2020, p16).