Emissions Trading Scheme
What is ETS Verification?
A process which verifies that a company's reported
greenhouse gas emissions are accurate and conform to the applicable
scheme and national requirements.
LRQA currently offers the following applicable schemes:
What can
ETS Verification do for
you?
- you will publicly demonstrate your company's compliance
with scheme requirements
- it will establish the integrity of your system(s) and
processes that generate your emission data
- it helps you to identify deficiencies against
requirements defined in the scheme
- it helps identify opportunities for improvement in the
accuracy and completeness of data
- it provides you with our verification opinion statement
for submission to the relevant authorities
- it allows you to register your verified emissions and
trade surplus amounts.
Who can be
verified?
EU ETS
Scheme
It is mandatory for those sectors listed in Annex I of the
EU ETS Directive.
All installations covered by the EU ETS
scheme must hold a greenhouse gas permit, or you will be
liable to financial penalties. Currently it only covers carbon
dioxide but may be expanded in the future to cover other greenhouse
gases.
How can LRQA help?
We offer pre-verification assessments where we'll review your
monitoring and reporting systems and confirm compliance with your
greenhouse gas permit. This can be done in advance of your formal
annual verification visit.
We corroborate your annual actual emissions and determine whether
you are in compliance with your annual allowance.
We also conduct emission baseline verifications on the data you
have to submit to your authority on which your allowances are
assigned. An independent verification gives your base year
emissions credibility during the allocation process.
We will make phased visits - flexible arrangements - to make sure
your verification is cost-effective and completed within critical
timelines.
Next steps
For details of our services for different greenhouse gas
emissions schemes please follow the links below.