Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the formal process is for an adjustment application and adjustments to be applied for the UK to become compliant with the 2020 emission ceiling for ammonia under each of (a) the National Emission Ceilings Regulations 2018 and (b) the Gothenburg Protocol.

For the purposes of our international obligation, the circumstances in which an adjustment to the emission inventory can be made are set out in Convention on Long Range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP) Executive Body decision 2012/3. The formal process for an adjustment application is set out in CLRTAP Executive Body decision 2012/12. Both decisions can be found at https://unece.org/decisions.

Regulation 4 of the National Emission Ceilings Regulations sets out that the Secretary of State may prepare an adjusted inventory of emissions if the conditions for applying an adjustment, set out in the Regulations, are met.