If you carry out an activity covered by the UK ETS, you must hold a greenhouse gas emissions permit or hospital or small emitter permit (installations) or emissions monitoring plan (aircraft operators). Permits and emissions monitoring plans are issued by the UK ETS Regulators. Failure to comply with your permit and obligations under The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme Order 2020 may lead to significant civil penalties being applied. The UK ETS reporting service Operators can apply for permits and submit reports online, using the Manage your UK ETS reporting service. This replaces the ETSWAP system. Some users may have known the early version of the new service as the permitting, monitoring, reporting and verification service (PMRV). Operators, regulators and verifiers can:
apply for, pay for and manage a permit or emissions monitoring plan
create, submit or verify annual emissions reports or improvement reports
manage other reporting such as determining emissions, non-compliances and activity level changes
The new service is currently available for UK ETS installation operators. It will be available for UK ETS aircraft operators and CORSIA aeroplane operators from autumn 2023.
ETSWAP availability During 2023 there may be a period when ETSWAP is not available for certain compliance activities. Regulators will keep you informed of what you need to do and when. Operators and their verifiers will not have access to ETSWAP after it has been decommissioned. They will be responsible for archiving their own data. Finding an accredited UK ETS verifier The Verification Regulation 2018 (Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/2067 of 18 December 2018 as modified requires verifiers to be a legal person or another legal entity that is carrying out verification activities for the purpose of UK ETS and is accredited by the UK Accreditation Service (UKAS). There is no requirement for UK ETS accredited verifiers to have a physical office in the UK or to be a legal entity registered in the UK. UKAS is responsible for the accreditation and supervision of verifiers in the UK and for maintaining a list of those verifiers. Operators are responsible for ensuring that their verifier is accredited for the relevant scope of work. Details of a verifier’s scope of accreditation can be found on the verifier’s certificate of accreditation. If you are a verification body accredited to perform verification in the UK ETS for the first time, you will need an ETS reporting service account to view your client’s reports and to submit your verification opinion statement. To do this, email the Environment Agency, quoting METS Support in your subject line, at:
ethelp@environment-agency.gov.uk for installations
etaviationhelp@environment-agency.gov.uk for aviation