About these guidelines

The National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act 2007 (NGER Act) establishes registration and reporting obligations for NGER reporters.

Reporters are responsible for determining if they have obligations under the NGER Act and ensuring that information provided in their NGER report meets the requirements of Act and its subordinate legislation (Link to Legislative instruments).

The Clean Energy Regulator has developed guidance documents to assist reporters comply with their NGER obligations. The guides are not intended to be a definitive or comprehensive interpretation of the NGER legislation but to provide a general understanding of key reporter obligations.

Contents

• STEP 1: Assess your obligations
• STEP 2: Registration
• STEP 3: Report
• STEP 4: Record keeping, monitoring and compliance
• Audit
• The safeguard mechanism
• Further information

STEP 1: Assess your obligations

Defining a 'facility' for the purposes of the NGER legislation

This guideline is designed to assist reporters to understand what constitutes a 'facility' for the purposes of the NGER Act and associated legislation.

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Operational control

The purpose of this guidance is to assist persons in identifying the corporation with operational control over a facility or facilities under the NGER Act.

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STEP 2: Registration

Acquisitions, disposals and mergers: treatment of change in controlling corporation

This document outlines how corporations' NGER obligations are calculated when there has been a change in a corporate group's controlling corporation part way through a reporting year.

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Acquisitions, disposals and mergers: treatment of change in ownership of a group member

This document outlines how corporations' NGER obligations are calculated when a group member has changed ownership part way through the reporting year.

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Reporting transfer certificates

This document sets out how Reporting Transfer Certificates (RTCs) operate under the NGER Act.

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Registration as a controlling corporation

This document provides information about a controlling corporation's obligations under the NGER Act and how to apply to the Clean Energy Regulator for registration as a controlling corporation.

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STEP 3: Report

2015-16 Report requirements: section 19, 22G and 22X reports

This guide sets out the manner and form requirements for reports submitted under sections 19, 22G and 22X of the NGER Act.

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Aggregated facility reporting, percentage estimates and incidental emissions and energy guideline

The following topics are covered in this guideline: aggregating facility data (applies to section 19 and 22X reports), percentage reporting (applies to section 19 and 22X reports), incidental reporting (applies to section 19, 22G and 22X reports) and optional reporting of small amounts of fuel combustion and electricity consumption (applies to section 19, 22G and 22X reports).

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EERS user guide

The EERS user guide provides basic information about EERS. It will assist users perform basic reporting functions required under the NGER Act.

After reading this guide, users should have developed a familiarity with EERS, be able to create or modify their corporate structure, report basic activity data and generate and submit a report to the Clean Energy Regulator.

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For more information on using EERS see Energy and Emissions Reporting System (EERS).

Blended fuels and other fuel mixes

This document outlines what is required to be reported by corporations that consume and produce blended fuels and other fuel mixes.

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Reporting energy production and consumption

This guideline is to provide corporations with assistance in defining and reporting energy production and consumption under the NGER legislation.

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Reporting emissions and energy from the consumption of liquid fuels at a facility

This fact sheet has been prepared to assist reporters in identifying whether liquid fuel is combusted for stationary or energy transport purposes where method 1 is used to estimate emissions.

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Petroleum based oils and greases measuring and reporting consumption

This document assists in measuring and reporting consumption of petroleum based oils and greases under the NGER Act.

Petroleum based oils (PBOs) and petroleum based greases (PBGs) used for all purposes, including transport, should be reported under the NGER legislation. Amendments to the NGER (Measurement) Determination 2008 will be implemented to reflect this.

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Reporting hydrofluorocarbons and sulphur hexafluoride gases

This document assists in defining and reporting hydrofluorocarbons and sulphur hexafluoride under the NGER Act.

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Reporting uncertainty

This guideline provides information about the requirements under the NGER legislation for reporting uncertainty. It includes background information and instructions on how to report uncertainty using the Emissions and Energy Reporting System (EERS).

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Estimating emissions at a landfill

This guideline will assist landfill operators to calculate emissions from operations at a landfill facility

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Measurement criteria

This guideline will assist corporations to understand measurement criteria A, AA, AAA and BBB and to report them compliantly under the NGER legislation.

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STEP 4: Record keeping, monitoring and compliance

• Complying with NGER
• Compliance education and enforcement policy
• Compliance education and enforcement policy

Application for information not to be published

This form covers requests for information not to be published in relation to information that would otherwise be published under section 24 of the NGER Act or under the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting (Safeguard Mechanism) Rule 2015 (the Safeguard Rule).

Section 25 of the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act 2007 (the NGER Act) provides for a registered corporation, or a person required to provide a report under section 22G, 22X or 22XB to apply to the Clean Energy Regulator requesting certain information not be published.

A request can only be made in relation to information which reveals or could be capable of revealing a trade secret or any other matter having a commercial value that would be, or could reasonably be expected to be, destroyed or diminished if the information were disclosed about a specific facility, technology or corporate initiative relating to the corporation or person.

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Audit

For all guidelines relating to greenhouse and energy auditors, see information for auditors.

The safeguard mechanism

Calculated baseline guidance

This guidance is designed to assist responsible emitters to understand the requirements around applying for a calculated baseline under the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting (Safeguard Mechanism) Rule 2015 (the Safeguard Rule).

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The Department of the Environment and Energy safeguard mechanism factsheets

The Department of the Environment and Energy hosts the list of the factsheets for the safeguard mechanism, which contain:

Further information

For further information, email reporting@cleanenergyregulator.gov.au or phone 1300 553 542.