UK Statutory Instrument 2015 United Kingdom

The Emissions Performance Standard Regulations 2015

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At a glance

Enforced by

Environment Agency

What's here

8 compliance obligations

Penalty landscape

2 of 8 obligations carry a criminal penalty. 1 carries different penalties and 5 have no criminal penalty — flagged in the list below.

Who this Act binds

Business-side actors with duties under this Act, ranked by how often they appear.

  • Operator 4
  • Any Person 3

Plus 1 non-business duty on Crown ministers, regulators, local authorities or tribunals — shown collapsed under each section below.

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Operators also bound by 128 other Acts (top 5 shown)
Any Person also bound by 770 other Acts (top 5 shown)

What this Act requires

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Part 1

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Part 2 — Emissions limit duty

Browse 6 other sections in this Part — procedural / definitional / commencement

Part 3 — Monitoring and Enforcement in England

s.010

CCS notification

  • Notify the Environment Agency when a CCS system is ready Operator
Browse 5 other sections in this Part — procedural / definitional / commencement

Other sections — not classified into a Part

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s.001

Citation, commencement, extent and application

s.002

Interpretation

s.003

Application of emissions limit duty to additional cases

s.004

Modification of emissions limit

s.005

Associated gasification plant

s.006

Exemption for complete carbon capture and storage system

s.007

EPS annual emissions

s.008

EPS annual emissions: reduction for CHPQA

s.009

Emissions limit notification duty

s.010

CCS notification

s.011

EPS annual emissions notification

s.012

Charges

s.013

Information notices

s.014

Enforcement notices

s.015

Civil penalty notices

s.016

Directions under section 59(2) of the Act

s.017

Appeals

s.018

Publication of information

s.019

Enforcement by the High Court

s.020

Amendment of the GGETS Regulations

s.021

Documents

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Documents

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Enforcement and responsible bodies

The regulators that administer or enforce this legislation.

Environment Agency

Environmental protection in England. Regulates waste, emissions, water quality, flood risk, and environmental permits for industrial activities. Enforces environmental law and issues …

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