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).

New activities form

Please complete the new activities form (RTF, 8.14 MB) with information about the activity you think might be eligible, including your estimates of revenue and emissions associated with this activity.

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

Emissions Trading 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: 5 August 2010