ANREU regulations
The Australian National Registry of Emissions Units (the Registry) was established under the Commonwealth's executive power to meet one of Australia's commitments under the Kyoto Protocol. It is an electronic system that ensures accurate accounting of the issuance, holding, transfer, acquisition, cancellation, retirement and carry-over of Kyoto units.
The Australian National Registry of Emissions Units Act 2011 (the ANREU Act) provides a legislative basis for the Registry, gives effect to Australia's on-going obligations under the Kyoto Protocol, and enables the Registry to track the location and ownership of Australian carbon credit units generated under the Carbon Farming Initiative. The Registry is maintained by the Carbon Credits Administrator.
Amendments to the ANREU Act included in the clean energy package of legislation will enable the Registry to act also as the Registry for carbon units issued under the carbon pricing mechanism. The amendments also insert further safeguards against fraud and crime to ensure the integrity of the Registry and the programs it supports, and provide for the administration of the Registry to transfer to the Clean Energy Regulator. The Regulations will be amended in due course to give effect to these changes.
The Government is now seeking comments on the draft regulations to support the ANREU Act. These regulations have been drafted to take into account stakeholder feedback from earlier consultation processes. A draft explanatory statement for these draft regulations is also available.
Submission guidelines
- Submissions are invited from all interested stakeholders
- Where possible, submissions should be lodged electronically to the email address below (alternatively, submissions may be sent to the postal address below), to arrive by the due date, using the submission template in Microsoft Word or other text-based formats.
- Submissions will not be treated as confidential and may be made publicly available. If a submission (or extract of a submission) is to be kept confidential, please indicate this in the submission, and
- All submissions are due 14 November 2011. The Government may not be able to consider late submissions.
Submissions should be sent to:
Email: cfi@climatechange.gov.au, or
Postal address: Land Sector Policy and Programs Section, Land Division
Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency
GPO Box 854
CANBERRA ACT 2601
Contact details
Hard copies are available on request via telephone: 1800 057 590, or
email cfi@climatechange.gov.au.