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Postgraduate Top-up Scholarship for Research in Ozone Science

The Scholarship is aimed at promoting postgraduate research investigating matters of relevance to the science of ozone depletion and recovery, including linkages with climate change science. Applications close 17 February 2012.

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Online licensing system now available

ALL licence applications and quarterly reports should now be submitted ONLINE. Old paper forms will NOT be accepted.

• Online application and reporting forms

Equivalent carbon price for synthetic greenhouse gases

From 1 July 2012, an equivalent carbon price will be applied to certain synthetic greenhouse gases - hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons (excluding gases produced from aluminium smelting) and sulfur hexafluoride (including equipment or products which contain these gases).

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New online licensing system - from November 2011

The department is currently developing a new online licensing system to facilitate the administration of licences and exemptions issued under the Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas Management Act 1989 (the Act). The new system is due to become operational in November 2011.

The new online licensing system will be used for all licensing-related activities, including licence and exemption applications, lodging quarterly reports, transferring licences and will make the process faster and more straightforward.

From November 2011, applications for all licence types and exemptions administered under the Act, as well as any related administrative activities such as the lodgement of quarterly reports, will only be accepted through the new online forms available on the department's website. Hard-copies of the new forms will however be available on request to businesses without internet access.

Once the new forms are available, please ensure that you delete any old forms you may have saved on your hard drive and instruct your clients to only submit applications or quarterly reports using the new online forms.

The department will advise the commencement date and provide links to the online forms closer to the rollout.

For further information please contact the Compliance, Enforcement & Licensing Team on:
Phone: +61 2 6274 1373 or +61 2 6274 1237
email: ozone@environment.gov.au

 

Notice to current Pre-Charged Equipment licence holders

Did you know that as of 18 May 2011, when amendments to the Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas Management Act 1989 came into force, all regular Pre-Charged Equipment (PCE) licences granted on and after this date will generally expire two years from the date on which the licence is granted, unless a shorter date is specified?

Until now, PCE licences have been granted within set two-year licensing periods. The current started on 1 January 2010 and will end on 31 December 2011 meaning that licences that were issued for this 2010-11 period (that is, licences issued before 18 May 2011), will still expire on 31 December 2011.

The new two year rolling PCE licences are valid from the date they are issued by the Delegate and cannot be specified to become valid at a later date. Therefore, if you are a holder of a current PCE licence that is due to expire on 31 December 2011 - and you do not plan on importing during the first months of 2012 - you should consider applying for a new licence after the new year, so you can get the most out of your licence.

Applying for a licence prior to the expiry of your current licence will mean that you would effectively lose the balance of time between your new licence being issued and when your current would expire.

For example: If you apply for a new licence on 1 November 2011 and your new 2 year rolling PCE licence is issued on 15 November 2011, you will lose 46 days of validity from your current licence.

If you do have plans to import in the first months of 2012, please contact the Licensing Officer on +61 2 6274 1373 to discuss the options available to you to ensure you do not lose any validity days from your current licence.

 

Other news

Phase outs

• HCFC Pre-charged airconditioners
  Australia bans import of HCFC Pre-charged airconditioners from 1 July 2010
• Methyl bromide phase out
  Methyl bromide phase out 2005