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What are the key dates to be aware of?

9 February 2009
The Commission published its preliminary list of operators included in the Scheme

31 March 2009
End of consultation on the preliminary list of operators

14 May 2009
End of Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) consultation on the proposed UK Regulations

2 August 2009 
The European Commission published its Guidance on Annex I activities and its decision on historic emissions to be used for benchmarking purposes

1 January 2010
Start of first monitoring period for annual emissions and benchmark data

2 February 2010
Date by which all Member States must have transposed the requirements of the Directive into National Law.

1 January 2011 
Start of second monitoring period for annual emissions

31 March 2011 
Final submission date for 2010 Annual Emissions data and 2010 Benchmark data

30 June 2011 
The UK will submit benchmark data to the Commission

30 September 2011 
The Commission will calculate the tonne-km benchmark

31 December 2011
UK will publish the allocation for each operator

1 January 2012 
Start of the third monitoring period for annual emissions

28 February 2012 
The UK will issue allowances for 2012 to those operators that successfully applied.

31 March 2013 
Final date for receipt of the 2012 Annual Emissions report

30 April 2013 
Final date for surrender of allowances against reportable emissions