UoS-ECS-Rai/sustainability-policymaking huggingface dataset:
242 In the period 2009-2013. In 2008, the environmental inspection filed about 180 misdemeanor reports, a third of which were rejected as unfounded due to lack of evidence. In the same period, the environmental inspection submitted 15 criminal reports; six were rejected as unfounded, and the inspection was not informed about the proceedings in the other nine cases by the competent courts. UNECE, Third report on the review of the state of the 243 environment of Montenegro, op. cit. Achieving the goals of sustainable development of Montenegro requires an adequate response to the key problems of using and managing national resources. The assessment of the situation points to numerous factors that lead to unsustainable trends in the management of human, social, natural and economic resources. and in their use, and the same applies to management within the framework of sustainable development. An overview of key drivers, pressures, conditions and impacts, according to the DPSI(R) method (drivers-pressures-condition-influences-responses), is presented in Annex II (tables P II-6, P II-7, P II- 8, P II-9). Some causes refer to several problems, and vice versa - some problems have their roots in several stated causes. By systematizing problems and causes, and assessing the level to which certain groups of problems and causes make it difficult to achieve the goals of sustainable development and weak prospects for the long-term sustainable development of Montenegrin society, key problems and weaknesses and their related needs were singled out, which is presented in sections 3.1-3.5 of this chapter.
The Energy Technology List is a UK government-managed list of energy-efficient plant and machinery, such as boilers, electric motors, and air conditioning and refrigeration systems that qualify for tax relief under the the Enhanced Capital Allowance tax scheme for businesses. For a product to be on the ETL, it must meet specific energy-saving or energy-efficient criteria.
These Regulations amend regulation 4 of the Controlled Waste (Registration of Carriers and Seizure of Vehicles) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999, which sets out the charges for registration as a carrier of controlled waste and paragraph 3(10) of Schedule 4 to the Waste Management Licensing Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003, which sets out fees in relation to the registration of brokers of and dealers in controlled waste.
The Storage of Carbon Dioxide (Licensing etc.) Regulations (Northern Ireland) implement Articles 2.3, 2.4, 3, 4.3, 4.4, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 and Chapter 3 (storage permits) (except Articles 18 and 20) of the CCS Directive. The Regulations implement those provisions of the Directive which deal with storage permits, including: (1) the granting of permits for the operation of carbon dioxide storage sites (and related exploration activities); (2) the obligations of the storage operator (for example, in relation to monitoring, reporting and corrective measures) whilst storage activities are taking place; (3) the operator’s continuing obligations for a period after the closure of the storage site; and (4) the inspection of carbon dioxide storage complexes.The purpose of the Directive is to establish a legal framework for the environmentally safe geological storage of carbon dioxide. Such a framework had been established in the UK by Part 1, Chapter 3, of the Energy Act 2008, which extends to Northern Ireland.
Legal act
Act of 20 May 2016 on Investments in wind power
plants (Official Journal of the Laws of 2016, Item
961)
"National reform programme for the
implementation of the Europe 2020 strategy-
update 2017/2018", adopted by the Council of
Ministers on April 25, 2017. Act of 25 August 2006 on biocomponents and
liquid biofuels (Official Journal of the Laws of
2015, Item 775)
Act of 25 August 2006 on fuel quality monitoring
and control system
(Official Journal of the Laws of 2014, Item 1728,
as amended)
Act of 27 May 2011 Amending the Act on the
Monitoring System and the quality control of fuels
and certain other acts (Official Journal of the Laws
No. 153, Item 902, as amended) and the Regulation
of the Minister of Economy of 7 February 2012
amending the regulation on quality requirements
for liquid fuels (Official Journal of the Laws of
2012, Item 136)
Act of July 11, 2014 Amending the Act on the
Monitoring System and the quality control of fuels
and certain other acts (Official Journal of the Laws
of 2014, Item 1088) and the Regulation of the
Minister of Economy of 3 November 2014
amending Regulation on quality requirements for
liquid fuels (Official Journal of the Laws of 2014,
Item 1547)
Act of 6 December 2008 on excise duty (Official
Journal of the Laws of 2014, Item 752, as
amended)
Description
in agricultural biogas from RES installations; creating new
jobs as a result of the increase in the number of new RES
installations; ensuring the use of energy by-products or
residues from agriculture and industry using agricultural raw
materials. The Act specifies conditions and procedures for the location
and construction of wind turbines and conditions for the
location of wind turbines in the vicinity of existing or planned
housing developments. The document identifies the most important measures for the
years 2017-2018, that will supporting economic growth,
competitiveness and employment. Amendment to the regulations, included in the Act of 21
March 2014 amending the Act on biocomponents and liquid
biofuels and some other acts (Official Journal of the Laws of
2014, Item 457) as regards the issues arising from the
16. Many industrial sectors also have low profit margins, so their ability to invest in some decarbonisation technologies is limited and has been exacerbated by the pandemic. Short-to-medium term capital funding and revenue support will therefore be required to overcome these investment hurdles, reduce the risk of carbon leakage, and stimulate long term private investment. Net Zero Strategy: Build Back Greener • Working towards more resource and energy efficiency savings. We anticipate the need for regulatory, fiscal, and wider measures targeted at industrial products and supply chains to achieve 11 MtCO₂e worth of savings by 2035, including up to 3 MtCO₂e of potential abatement in the iron and steel sector, as estimated by the Climate Change Committee.
The considerable progress that Ireland has made since the last communication is detailed Important national mainstreaming actions include the process, incorporated into Cabinet this fund. By requiring a minimum contribution from each project, the fund's commitment
The energy sector is the main source of greenhouse gas emissions in Finland. In 2020, the sector contributed 72 per cent to total national emissions, totalling 34.6 million tonnes CO eq. (Figure 2.2). Energy sector emissions can be divided into emissions resulting from fossil fuel combustion and fugitive emissions from fuels. Most of the emissions originate from fuel combustion, which reflects the high energy intensity of the Finnish industry, the extensive consumption of fuels during the long heating period, and the energy consumed for transport in this relatively large and sparsely inhabited country. Fugitive emissions make up only 0.3 per cent of the sector's total emissions. Energy-related emissions vary greatly from year to year (Figure 2.5), mainly following the economic trend, the structure of the energy supply and climatic conditions. Compared with 1990, the emissions in the energy sector in 2020 were about 36 per cent lower. In 2020, emissions in the energy sector were about 12 per cent lower than in the previous year and approximately half the emission level in 2003, the year of the greatest emissions from the energy sector between 1990 and 2020. The energy industries (mainly electricity and district heat production) caused approximately 38 per cent (13.1 million tonnes CO eq.) of the total emissions in the energy sector in 2020. Emissions from the energy industries were 31 per cent lower in 2020 than in 1990. Manufacturing industries and construction produce a great deal of energy for their own use. Their share of energy-related emissions was around 18 per cent in 2020 (6.2 million tonnes CO eq.). These emissions have declined by 53 per cent since 1990. The main reasons for this trend are the increased use of biofuels, i.e. black liquor a by-product of pulp industry, in the forest industry and the outsourcing of power plants from the manufacturing industries to energy industries. Share of biomass as a source of energy has significantly grown in the public electricity and heat production as well as in manufacturing industries and construction between 1990 and 2020 (Figure 2.6). See also Section 2.6 of Finland's Eight National communication for trends in energy sources. Emissions from the residential sector have decreased by 67 per cent and from commercial sectors by 57 per cent compared with 1990 levels. The decrease is mainly due to the substitution
Protecting critical infrastructure
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SUMMARY OF:
Directive 2008/114/EC identification and designation of European critical infrastructures and assessment of the need to improve their protection
WHAT IS THE AIM OF THE DIRECTIVE? It establishes a European Union (EU) process for identifying and designating European critical infrastructures* (ECIs), and sets out an approach for improving their protection. KEY POINTS
Identification and designation of ECIs
Operator security plans
Security liaison officers
Reporting
FROM WHEN DOES THE DIRECTIVE APPLY? It has applied since 12 January 2009.
EU countries had to incorporate it into national law by 12 January 2011. BACKGROUND
* KEY TERMS
MAIN DOCUMENT
Council Directive 2008/114/EC of 8 December 2008 on the identification and designation of European critical infrastructures and the assessment of the need to improve their protection (OJ L 345, 23.12.2008, pp. 75 82)
RELATED DOCUMENTS
Communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament Critical Infrastructure Protection in the fight against terrorism (COM(2004) 702 final, 20.10.2004)
Green Paper on a European programme for critical infrastructure protection (COM(2005) 576 final, 17.11.2005)
Communication from the Commission on a European Programme for Critical Infrastructure Protection (COM(2006) 786 final, 12.12.2006)
Commission Staff Working Document on a new approach to the European Programme for Critical Infrastructure Protection: Making European Critical Infrastructures more secure (SWD(2013) 318 final, 28.8.2013)
last update 14.11.2016
House of Commons, London SW1A 0AA 020 7219 4494 - beiscom@parliament.uk - - @CommonsBEIS Minister for Climate Change and Corporate Responsibility Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill On 8 November, my Committee held an oral evidence session with anti-fraud experts, finance representatives, and Companies House to understand the scale of fraudulent company registrations and how this issue will be impacted by the Economic Crime and Corporate A number of issues were raised during the session which fall under the remit of the Department. Therefore, I would appreciate a response to the following 1. The BEIS Impact Assessment estimates that the total cost of ‘Corporate Transparency and Companies House Register Reform ’ measures in the Bill would be £289 million over 10 £90 million in the first year and £22 million annually thereafter. Please can you explain how much of this expenditure is expected to be additional spending for Companies House compared to current budgets and what percentage will be paid by the Department compared to other sources of income? 2. Some of the ID verification process is expected to be outsourced by Companies House. If independent organisations are verifying large amounts of personal information how will BEIS assist Companies House in assessing and managing the risks of outsourcing 3. What requirements will be placed on company service providers in carr ying out verification of information supplied by companies which they register , and what will the Department’s role be in monitoring and supervising these providers? Of the budgets referred to above, how much is expected to be spent on enforcement of stand ards at these independent organisations? I would be grateful for a written response by 26 December 2022.
Vans will go electric and lorries will run on hydrogen dual-fuel under a £20 million government programme to cut emissions and improve air quality, Transport Minister John Hayes announced today (11 January 2017). The funding, announced at the Sustainable Road Transport Conference, in central London, is being given to 20 firms who set out plans for innovative ways to deploy low and zero emission vehicles.
The Autumn 2022 wave of the PAT was collected between 1 September and 3 October 2022 using a push-to-web methodology, covering a sample of 4,161 individuals in the UK. The methodology, which was introduced in Autumn 2021, uses random probability sampling. Respondents are invited to participate through letters sent out to addresses randomly selected from the postcode address file PAF. They can complete the survey online or on paper. These results should not be compared with the face-to-face results or online panel results from previous waves due to selection and measurement effects. A summary of the methodology is provided in the Technical Overview report. A more detailed description of the survey methodology used since Autumn 2021 together with core survey metrics for Autumn 2021 to Summer 2022 is given in the Technical Report . The results have been split into topic-based reports. These reports also include the results from previous waves from Autumn 2021 onwards and make comparisons with these results where possible. The Energy Bills and Tariffs, Artificial Intelligence, and Businesses and Trade reports were not updated in this wave as questions on these topics were not asked so the latest results on these topics can be found in the Summer 2022 wave. From Summer 2022 onwards we are no longer publishing the PAT datasets but more detailed versions will be available via the Secure Research Service SRS. This change was proposed when the results from Spring 2022 were published and no comments were received from users.
The aim of these statistics is to provide the most reliable and consistent possible breakdown of CO2 emissions across the country, using nationally available data sets going back to 2005. The main data sources are the UK National Atmospheric Emissions Inventory and BEISs National Statistics of energy consumption for local authority areas. All emissions included in the national inventory are covered, except aviation, shipping and military transport, for which there is no obvious basis for allocation to local areas. Publications
In addition, on the National Atmospheric Emissions Inventory NAEI website, interactive local authority level emissions maps are published on behalf of BEIS. These allow users to zoom in to any UK local authority and see the emissions for the area, and also identify the significant point sources, such as iron and steel plants. It is also possible to filter by different sectors, and view how emissions have changed across the time series. Air pollution data are also available on a local authority basis which looks at a number of gases that cause air pollution. Carbon dioxide which is presented in the emissions reports above is also considered an air pollutant. A number of activities contribute to both air pollutant and carbon dioxide emissions. Other activities that contribute to carbon dioxide emissions do not contribute to air pollutant emissions and vice versa. This is a National Statistics publication and complies with the code of practice for statistics.
Monitoring compliance U.K. 27 (1) The regulations may make provision for monitoring compliance with the requirements of a trading scheme. U.K. (2) The regulations may, in particular, make provision about- (a) the keeping of records by the participants, (b) the provision of information by the participants and others, (c) the audit and verification of that information, and (d) the inspection of premises. (3) If the regulations confer functions on the administrator of the scheme for the purposes of this paragraph, they may provide for the administrator to delegate the performance of any of those functions.
Description/
objectives
Quantitative goals and
progress indicators
Time
frame
Name of the action: Commissioning of Solar PVs with capacity of up to 5 MW
Coordination/Support/Financing: Private investors
According to the Strategy and
Action Plan, the construction of
solar PV power plants with an
installed capacity of up to 5 MW
(inclusively) will be supported
through tariff policy and power
purchase agreement. The quantitative goal is to support
the installation of the total of 315
MW of solar PV power plants with
an installed capacity of up to 5 MW
(inclusively) by 2030. The progress indicator: The total
installed capacity of solar PV power
plants with an installed capacity of
up to 5 MW (inclusively)
The construction of the solar PVS
of this group was limited to a total
capacity of 10 MW. Ongoing
2018-2029
The progress indicators: The ave
rage annual electricity generation
by Vorotan Cascade. Progress of implemen-
tation/steps taken or
envisaged/ achieved
results
Name of the action: Commissioning of Solar PVs with capacity of up to 1 MW
Coordination/Support/Financing: Private investors, KfW Bank which provided loans through Armenian commercial banks. Construction of solar PV power
plants with an installed capacity of
up to 1 MW (inclusively). Completed
2017-2019
As of October 1, 2020, licen-
ses for production of electri-
city have been granted to 49
solar PVS with a capacity of
up to 5 MW with the total ins-
talled capacity of 200 MW. As of December 1, 2020,
2 plants with total of 10 MW
capacity have been already
connected to the grid. Hydro Power Plants
Name of the action: Upgrade of the Contour Global (Vorotan) Hydro Power Plant
Coordination/Support: IFC, Contour Global (Vorotan) Hydropower Cascade
Financing: IFC has arranged USD 140 min financing package for Vorotan Hydropower Cascade
The upgrade of Contour Global The quantitative goal was to achi- Completed
(Vorotan) Hydro Cascade to eve the annual
The duty to consider these principles should be applied in the early stages of policy development and considered throughout. In doing so, the extent to which a policy will contribute to climate change should be considered alongside other impacts of the policy on the environment. Net zero will therefore be facilitated by the principles where they are applied to relevant decisions. This builds on important announcements in the 2021 Budget, particularly the new UK Infrastructure Bank that will use its £22 billion of financial capacity to crowd-in private investment to support economic growth, accelerate our progress to net zero, and help level up the UK. One of the Bank's objectives is to help the UK transition to net zero emissions by 2050. Ensuring spending decisions contribute to net zero is a major priority for HM Treasury. The Green Book already mandates the consideration of climate and environmental impacts in spending. It has been updated so that policies must be developed and assessed against how well they deliver on the Government's long-term policy aims such as net zero.
Discretionary requirements: procedure E+W+N.I. 13 (1) Provision under paragraph 12 must secure that- E+W+N.I. (a) where an administrator proposes to impose a discretionary requirement on a person, the administrator must serve on that person a notice of what is proposed (a "notice of intent") that complies with sub-paragraph (2), (b) that person may make written representations and objections to the administrator in relation to the proposed imposition of the discretionary requirement, (c) after the end of the period for making such representations and objections, the administrator must decide whether to- (i) impose the discretionary requirement, with or without modifications, or (ii) impose any other discretionary requirement that the administrator has power to impose under paragraph 12, (d) where the administrator decides to impose a discretionary requirement, the notice imposing it (the "final notice") complies with sub-paragraph (4), and (e) the person on whom a discretionary requirement is imposed may appeal against the decision to impose it. (2) To comply with this sub-paragraph the notice of intent must include information as to- (a) the grounds for the proposal to impose the discretionary requirement, (b) the right to make representations and objections, (c) the circumstances in which the administrator may not impose the discretionary requirement, (d) the period within which representations and objections may be made, which may not be less than the period of 28 days beginning with the day on which the notice of intent is received. (3) Provision pursuant to sub-paragraph (1)(c) must include provision for circumstances in which the administrator may not decide to impose a fixed monetary penalty. (4) To comply with this sub-paragraph the final notice referred to in sub-paragraph (1)(d) must include information as to- (a) the grounds for imposing the discretionary requirement, (b) where the discretionary requirement is a variable monetary penalty- (i) how payment may be made, (ii) the period within which payment must be made, and (iii) any early payment discounts or late payment penalties, (c) rights of appeal, and (d) the consequences of non-compliance. (5) Provision pursuant to sub-paragraph (1)(e) must secure that the grounds on which a person may appeal against a decision of the administrator include the following- (a) that the decision was based on an error of fact; (b) that the decision was wrong in law; (c) in the case of a variable monetary penalty, that the amount of the penalty is unreasonable; (d) in the case of a non-monetary discretionary requirement, that the nature of the requirement is unreasonable; (e) that the decision was unreasonable for any other reason.
Activities U.K. 14 (1) The regulations must identify the activities to which the trading scheme applies. U.K. (2) The regulations may identify the activities by reference to any, or any combination of, criteria and in particular- (a) may identify the activities by reference to the locations or locations at which they are carried on, or (b) may be expressed to apply to all activities of a particular kind carried on in the United Kingdom or a part of the United Kingdom. (3) The regulations must specify the units of measurement of the activities for the purposes of the scheme. (4) The regulations may specify units of measurement by reference to- (a) the activities themselves, (b) anything consumed or used for the purposes of the activities, (c) anything produced by the activities, or (d) any other consequence of the activities. (5) The regulations may, in particular, make provision- (a) for activities to be measured by reference to the amount (in tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent) of the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, or removals of greenhouse gas from the atmosphere, for which those activities are to be regarded as responsible; and (b) as to the method by which that amount is to be measured or calculated. (6) The regulations may make different provision in relation to different descriptions of activity to which the scheme applies.
(2) Where a shareholder becomes a holder of excessive rights in a company group REIT, then the provisions of subsection (3) will not apply for a period of three years commencing from the date specified by that company in accordance with section 705E(4). (3) Where a REIT or group REIT makes a distribution to a holder of excessive rights and the REIT or group REIT, as the case may be, has not taken reasonable steps to prevent the distribution to such a person being made, the REIT or the