Information document: New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme Draft Forestry Allocation Plan and Deforestation Exemption Policies for Pre-1990 Forest Land
Submissions process
The Government has invited submissions on the Draft Forestry Allocation Plan via public notice. A copy of the public notice is attached in Annex 1. You can make submissions on the form attached to the Draft Forestry Allocation Plan. Submissions can be made by email to FAPsubmissions@maf.govt.nz or sent to FAP Submissions, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, PO Box 2526, Wellington 6140. Submissions close on 28 February 2009.
Following the public submission period, the Director-General of MAF (acting under delegated authority) will prepare a report on the submissions for the Minister Responsible for Climate Change Issues. The Minister will consider that report and may change the Draft Forestry Allocation Plan as he or she considers fit. The Minister will then recommend to the Governor-General that a finalised Forestry Allocation Plan be issued by Order in Council.
You should note that some of the details included in the Draft Forestry Allocation Plan, such as the overall level of NZUs to be allocated and the number of NZUs to be given to each class of landowner, are prescribed by the Act (see section 71 of the Act, which is reproduced in Annex 2). Those fixed details are identified in this document and on the submission form and cannot be changed by the Minister, regardless of the outcome of this submissions process.
Contact for Enquiries
Emissions Trading Scheme
Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
PO Box 1127
Wellington
Or call us on 0800 CLIMATE (254 628)
