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.

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
• More 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.

documentasset:NGER Defining facilities

Operational control

This guideline will assist persons in identifying the corporation with operational control over a facility or facilities under the NGER Act.

documentasset:Operational control supplementary guideline

STEP 2: Registration

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

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

documentasset:Guideline - Reporting transfer certificates

Registration as a controlling corporation

This guideline 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.

documentasset:Registration as a controlling corporation

STEP 3: Report

2019–20 Report requirements: section 19, 22G and 22X reports

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

documentasset:Guideline - Manner and Form Sections 19 22G and 22X reports​

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).

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

Blended fuels, other fuel mixes and bitumen

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

documentasset:Reporting blended fuels, other fuel mixes and bitumen guideline​

Emissions and Energy Reporting System​

The Emissions and Energy Reporting System (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.

documentasset:EERS user guide

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

EERS validation error and warning messages

The EERS validation errors and warning messages guideline is designed to assist reporters understand and resolve validation messages that may appear in the Emissions and EERS.​

documentasset::Guide to Validations in Emissions and Energy Reporting System​​​

Estimating emissions and energy from fuel combustion

This guideline will assist reporters in the fuel combustion sector meet their reporting obligations under the NGER Act.

Reporters estimating emissions for facilities in relevant sectors are encouraged to read the guideline prior to submitting a report required by section 19, 22G or 22X of the NGER Act.

documentasset:Estimating emissions and energy from fuel combustion guideline

Estimating emissions and energy from coal mining

This guideline is designed to assist reporters in the coal mining sector meet their reporting obligations under the NGER Act.

Reporters estimating emissions for facilities in relevant sectors are encouraged to read the guideline prior to submitting a report required by section 19, 22G or 22X of the NGER Act.

documentasset:Estimating emissions and energy from coal mining guideline​​

​Estimating emissions and energy in the electricity generation, transmission, and distribution sectors

This guideline is designed to assist reporters in the electricity sector meet their reporting obligations under the NGER Act.

Reporters estimating emissions for facilities in relevant sectors are encouraged to read the guideline prior to submitting a report required by section 19, 22G or 22X of the NGER Act.

documentasset:Estimating emissions and energy in the electricity generation, transmission, and distribution sectors​​ guideline

Estimating emissions and energy from industrial processes

This guidance is designed to assist reporters in the industrial processes sector meet their reporting obligations under the NGER Act.

Reporters estimating emissions for facilities in relevant sectors are encouraged to read the guidance prior to submitting a report required by section 19, 22G or 22X of the NGER Act.

Estimating emissions and energy from solid waste and landfill biogas management

This guideline will assist reporters in the solid waste sector meet their reporting obligations under the NGER Act.​

Reporters estimating emissions for facilities in relevant sectors are encouraged to read the guideline prior to submitting a report required by section 19, 22G or 22X of the NGER Act.

documentasset:Estimating emissions and energy from solid waste and landfill biogas management guideline​​

Estimating emissions and energy from wastewater handling (domestic and commercial) and (industrial)

This guideline will assist reporters in the wastewater handling sector meet their reporting obligations under the NGER Act.

Reporters estimating emissions for facilities in relevant sectors are encouraged to read the guideline prior to submitting a report required by section 19, 22G or 22X of the NGER Act.

documentasset:Estimating emissions and energy from wastewater handling guideline

Methods and 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.

Documentasset:Methods and measurement criteria guideline​​

​Petroleum based oils and greases measuring and reporting consumption

This guideline 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. Amendme​nts to the NGER (Measurement) Determination 2008 will be implemented to reflect this.

documentasset:Petroleum-based oils and greases guideline​

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.

documentasset:Reporting energy production and consumption guideline​

Reporting hydrofluorocarbons and sulphur hexafluoride gases

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

documentasset:Reporting Hydrofluorocarbons and Sulphur Hexafluoride gases guideline

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 EERS.

documentasset:Reporting uncertainty guideline

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 NGER Act allows a registered corporation, or a person required to provide a report under section 22G, 22X or 22XB to apply 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.

documentasset:Guidance for completing application for information not to be published

Audit

See information for auditors for all guidelines relating to greenhouse and energy 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 (Safeguard Mechanism) Rule 2015 (the Safeguard Rule).

• documentasset:Safeguard mechanism guidance - calculated baseline applications

The Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources safeguard mechanism factsheets

The Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources hosts the list of the factsheets for the safeguard mechanism, which include:

More information

Please email reporting@cleanenergyregulator.gov.au or phone 1300 553 542 for more information.