UK proposes flexible penalty regime

摘要

The UK government is proposing amendments to national EU emissions trading scheme (ETS) legislation that would allow regulators to impose smaller, discretionary penalties when fining installations that under-reported or did not submit their verified emissions volumes before 2013. The UK’s Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc) and Environment Agency launched a consultation in August on the amendments. Under the new rules, regulators could impose a penalty of ?20/t CO2 equivalent ($26.50/t CO2e) on UK installations that have not complied with EU ETS allowance submission requirements before this year, provided operators “voluntarily identify” their under-reporting and surrender the required allowances accordingly. This is in contrast to an existing inflexible fine of ?100/t CO2e.