12Project must include project activity on eligible land

12  Project must include project activity on eligible land

  A project must be one in which one or more project activities are conducted, each on land which is eligible land for that project activity.

Note: There are four project activities, each with different eligibility requirements for the land on which they are conducted. They are, in summary:

(a) creating a new plantation on land which has not previously had a plantation on it (the new plantation project activity—see Schedule 1);

(b) converting an existing short-rotation plantation forest into a long-rotation plantation forest (the conversion project activity—see Schedule 2);

(c) continuing an existing plantation forest (the continuing plantation project activity—see Schedule 3);

(d) transitioning an existing plantation forest to a permanent planting (the permanent planting project activity—see Schedule 4).

 The first two activities are essentially the same as the new plantation project activity and the conversion project activity under the Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative—Plantation Forestry) Methodology Determination 2017 (the former determination).

 Where a plantation forest project under the former determination is brought under this determination as a result of a request under section 128 of the Act, an existing new plantation CEA or conversion CEA can continue as the corresponding type of CEA under this determination—see Schedule 5.

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