Reminders for 2010 Verification

ETS 5’s (Annual Improvements Form)

Category B installations (i.e. >50,000 tonnes CO₂/year & <500,000 tonnes CO₂/year) & Category C installations (i.e. >500,000 tonnes CO₂/year) are required to submit an ETS5 to the regulator by the end of June 2011, justifying why top tier is not being achieved or describing how top tier can be achieved for agreement by the regulator. This is a requirement of your GHG Permit.

Please ensure that your completed ETS5 & the regulator’s response is available for your verifier for 2011, as these are documents that are required as part of the verification process.

ETS6’s (Verifier’s Recommended Improvement Form)

If your verifier identified areas for improvements, any non-conformances or misstatements in the Verifier Annex 1 of your Verification Opinion Statement, then you are required to submit an ETS6 to the regulator before the end of June 2011, detailing your responses and any actions required.

Agreement (or not) should be confirmed by the regulator in a formal response - this will have specified deadlines for the actions to be completed. Your verifier has to check & confirm if actions have been completed.

Please ensure that your completed ETS6 & the regulator’s response is available for your verifier for 2011, as these are documents that are required as part of the verification process.

Forms and Guidance

The latest version of the above forms can be found at:
http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/business/topics/pollution/32244.aspx

Phase III Baseline

The UK deadline is 13th June 2011 for submission of additional Phase III Baseline data.

If you have not already contacted us please do so as soon as possible in order for you to report on time and avoid possible penalties.

May, 2011