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Environment Agency (greenhouse(Greenhouse gasGas emissions)Emissions) charging scheme

From the 1 April 20242023 you must pay the charges given in Environment Agency (greenhouse(Greenhouse gasGas emissions)Emissions) chargesCharges for 1 April 20242023 to 31 March 2025.2024.

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Environment Agency (Greenhouse Gas Emissions) Charging Scheme 2021

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ThisThe publicationEnvironment Agency (Greenhouse Gas Emissions) Charging Scheme 2021 provides details on charges relating to:

  • permit and emissions monitoring plan applications
  • subsistence
  • transfer, surrender and revocation
  • allocation from new entrant reserve
  • determination
  • UK Emissions Trading Scheme Registry

It also sets out:

  • who must pay the charge
  • when payment must be made

The charges apply to England except for registry administration charges which apply to the UK.

Charges under this scheme increase annually on 1 April in line with any increase in the Consumer Prices Index published by the Office for National Statistics.

You get information on how to pay when you apply or in your annual invoice. Or you can contact your regulator (the Environment Agency in England).

The 2021Carbon chargingOffsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation charges and National Registry charges relating to the UK’s participation in the Kyoto Protocol apply from 4 November 2021.

Charges under this scheme (availableincrease annually on The1 April in line with any increase in the Consumer Prices Index published by the Office for National Archives)Statistics. explainsSee howEnvironment theseAgency charges(Greenhouse apply.Gas Emissions) Charges for 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024.

Published 4 November 2021
Last updated 1215 March 20242023 + show all updates
  1. Added the charges for 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025.

  2. Added the Environment Agency (Greenhouse Gas Emissions) Charges for 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024.

  3. Added Environment Agency (Greenhouse Gas Emissions) Charges for 1 April 2022 to 31 March 2023.

  4. Amended from 2021 Version 2.0 to 2022 Version 3. Under 12. Charge for allocation from new entrant reserve, added paragraph 12A Charge for increase to emissions target. Under 13, added subparagraph (b) Charge for the determination for reportable activity level in the event a verified activity level report is not submitted. Under 16B, added a subparagraph (2).