New activities for industrial allocation

Think your activity might be eligible? Let us know

The Government is still open to considering further activities that could be eligible for industrial allocation. If your activity hasn’t been identified as potentially eligible (check the list of Specified Templates for Activities), but you think it might be, you will have to provide some preliminary evidence of your revenue and emissions.

To be eligible for industrial allocation, activities must be:

  • emissions-intensive (more than 800 tonnes of carbon dioxide-equivalent emissions per 1 million New Zealand dollars of revenue), and
  • trade-exposed (all activities are 'trade-exposed' unless there is no international trade of the output of the activity or importing/exporting the output is not viable).

Before Applying:
Before you apply it is important to note that some activities have already been assessed. These activities are:

Sawmilling Production of raw coloured glass
Production of wool scouring Production of agricultural lime
Production of aubergines Manufacture of refractories.
Production of cut gerberas Production of zinc die-casting
Production of fruit pulp Production of cut cymbidium orchids
Production of whey protein concentrate Production of cast iron
The transformation of raw milk into milk powder and other products Production of plastic injection moulding
Coal mining Production of yarn

On the data received through this process, the above activities were estimated to be significantly below the threshold/s (emission-intensive and/or trade-exposed). In light of this, the Minister for Climate Change Issues decided not to issue a formal call for data for information relating to these activities. A new assessment can be made for the above activities if new information that would change the initial assessment is provided.

New activities form

If you think your activity might be eligible, or you have new information that would change the initial assessment of the above activities, please complete the new activities form (RTF, 2.41 MB). The new activities form includes information about the activity you think might be eligible, together with your estimates of revenue and emissions associated with this activity.

Email it to climatechange@mfe.govt.nz or post it to:

ETS Operational Policy
Ministry for the Environment
PO Box 10362
Wellington 6143

What is the process for making a new activity eligible?

The diagram below shows the process for defining an eligible industrial activity.

Eligible activity process diagram

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  1. Potential applicants submit a New Activities Form with details about the activity
  2. The Ministry for the Environment assesses whether the activity might be eligible for allocation
  3. The Ministry defines the activity
  4. The Ministry publishes a Gazette notice calling for data
  5. Potential applicants provide data on production, revenue and emissions from the activity
  6. The Ministry assesses the data to determine emissions intensity
  7. If the activity is eligible, the Ministry makes regulations that:
    • define the eligible activity, and
    • specify inputs to be used when calculating how many NZUs will be allocated

Last updated: 16 December 2011