✨ Climate Change Data Reporting Notice
974 NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 34 26 MARCH 2010
(e) the transportation of intermediate products between different location where the activity as defined is carried out;
(f) operations that are complementary to the activity as defined, including (but not limited to) packaging, head office operations, and administration and marketing (whether carried out at the same location where the activity is carried out or at a different location); and
(g) the generation of electricity at the location where the activity as defined is carried out.
Dated at Wellington this 26th day of March 2010.
HON NICK SMITH, Minister for Climate Change Issues.
Explanatory note
This note is not part of the notice but is intended to indicate its general effect.
This notice, which comes into effect on 26 March 2010, requires any person carrying out the production of chlorine gas and sodium hydroxide (caustic soda) solution and (as that activity is defined in the notice) to provide the information requested by the Minister in accordance with the data collection rules specified in the notice including only the emissions set out in Schedule 2 of the notice from the sources listed in Emissions Rule 1 of Schedule 1 of the notice, and excluding those emissions set out in Schedule 3 of the notice.
The information is being requested to assist the Minister to determine if the activity meets the criteria listed in section 161D(3)(a) of the Act.
The specified template, declaration and bases of preparation required by this notice, together with the guidance document for filling in these documents can be downloaded from www.climatechange.govt.nz/industrialallocation
The specified template, declaration and bases of preparation must be completed and returned to the Ministry for the Environment within 40 working days of the date of this notice. The Ministry would prefer to receive this information by email to industrialallocation@mfe.govt.nz. If you consider that providing the information by email would cause difficulties, you may return data on CD by mail or in person to the Ministry for the Environment, 23 Kate Sheppard Place, Wellington. Original signed copies of the declaration must also be provided. Please contact the Ministry on 0800 499 700 for any further assistance.
While the notice does not require the source information and records on which the data in the specified template is based, it would be prudent to retain this information for a period of seven years. The Minister is able to request any further information that he considers necessary to enable the verification of the accuracy of the information provided under this notice.
Persons to whom this notice applies should note that, under section 161D(7) of the Act, failure without reasonable excuse to supply the data and information required by this notice will mean that if the activity is subsequently prescribed as an eligible industry activity, those persons (and associated persons) may not be eligible to be allocated New Zealand units in respect of that activity.
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- HON NICK SMITH, Minister for Climate Change Issues