982 NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 34 26 MARCH 2010

Call for the Provision of Data (Production of High Purity Ethanol) Notice 2010

Pursuant to section 161D of the Climate Change Response Act 2002, I, Hon Nick Smith, Minister for Climate Change Issues, give the following notice requiring information on the Production of High Purity Ethanol to determine the emissions-intensity of this activity and the allocative baseline or baselines of the products of the activity.

Notice

1. Title and commencement—(1) This notice may be cited as the Call for the Provision of Data (Production of High Purity Ethanol) Notice 2010.

(2) This notice takes effect from and including 26 March 2010.

2. Interpretation—(1) Unless the context otherwise requires:

Act means the Climate Change Response Act 2002.

Activity outputs are the outputs used for the calculation of the revenue of the activity and mean the outputs specified in clause 2(2)(a) of this notice.

Bases of preparation means the form available at www.climatechange.govt.nz/industrialallocation

Data collection rules means the methodologies for data collection specified in Schedule 1 of this notice.

Declaration means the statement of declaration located at www.climatechange.govt.nz/industrialallocation

Excluded emissions means the emissions specified in Schedule 3 of this notice.

Financial years means the financial years beginning on 1 July and ending on 30 June for each of the periods 2006/2007, 2007/2008 and 2008/2009 during which the person carried out the activity.

Included emissions means the emissions specified in Schedule 2 of this notice from the sources listed in Emissions Rule 1 of Schedule 1.

Product (basis of allocation) means the total kilolitres of 100 per cent ethanol (C₂H₅OH) equivalent at 20°C assuming a density of ethanol (C₂H₅OH) of 789.24 kg/m³ at 20°C that are:

(a) produced by carrying on the activity; and

(b) of saleable quality.

Specified Template means the table template located at www.climatechange.govt.nz/industrialallocation

(2) Activity means the production of high purity ethanol by the chemical transformation of fermentable sugars (such as C₆H₁₂O₆ or C₅H₁₀O₅ or C₁₂H₂₂O₁₁ or C₁₈H₃₂O₁₆) to ethanol (C₂H₅OH) and the subsequent purification process to obtain a solution of high purity ethanol where the outputs include:

(a) high purity ethanol, which must have a concentration of ethanol (C₂H₅OH) equal to or greater than 95 per cent with respect to volume.

(3) Saleable has its ordinary meaning as understood by participants in the relevant market, subject to subclauses (a) to (d):

(a) Saleable is an output produced to a level at which it would ordinarily be considered by participants in the relevant market:

(i) to be the output of the process; and

(ii) to have a commercial value as that output.

(b) A sub-standard product which is discarded is taken not to be saleable or of saleable quality.

(c) An output which is recycled back while carrying out the activity as defined to produce a new output is not saleable or of saleable quality.

(d) Material which is scrapped or lost before it is packaged as a product that is saleable or of saleable quality:

(i) is not saleable or of saleable quality; and

(ii) is not to be included in an amount of product (basis of allocation).

(4) Expressions defined in the Act have the same meaning in this notice as they do in the Act unless the context otherwise requires.