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This consultation is now closed

We are seeking your views on changing the process of providing identity documents to us. 

Background

To participate in our schemes, applicants are required to confirm their identity to the Clean Energy Regulator (CER).

When a participant is already in our schemes and wants to engage in an additional activity, we ask them for their identity documents again.

We are proposing to amend the Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) Rule 2015 and the Australian National Registry of Emissions Units Regulations 2011, so that we no longer need to request identity documents again when we have already received them for another activity.

We are also seeking to change legislation to bring us in line with the requirements of the Australian Government’s Documentation Verification Service (DVS). This would allow us to accept recently expired (not cancelled) identity documents, such as a passport that has expired within the past 2 years.

These changes would streamline the process for confirming identity and make our process closer to that used more broadly by the Australian Government.

Timeline

  • Opened: 7 November 2024
  • Closed: 28 November 2024

Outcomes

We received 14 email submissions for this consultation from a range of stakeholders. All submissions strongly supported making the proposed changes to streamline identity verification processes.

We’ve considered the feedback and implemented the following changes:

  • Amendments have been made to the Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) Rule 2015 and the Australian National Registry of Emissions Units Regulations 2011.
  • Participants in the Australian Carbon Credit Unit (ACCU) Scheme, Nature Repair Market scheme and holders of Australian National Registry of Emissions Units (ANREU) accounts no longer need to re-verify their identity when registering for another scheme.
  • Verification processes are aligned with the Australian Government’s Document Verification Service (DVS), meaning we can accept recently expired (not cancelled) Australian passports as identity documents.

Further harmonisation of identity requirements will occur for other schemes in future. Find out more about our identity verification.

Amended legislation and explanatory statements

Contact

CER-IdentityandFPPReform@cer.gov.au