Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative—Plantation Forestry) Methodology Determination 2022
14Requirements for CEAs
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14 Requirements for CEAs
Basic requirements
(1) A CEA must consist only of land:
(a) that is within an area allocated to a project activity in accordance with section 10; and
(b) on which that project activity will be undertaken; and
(c) that has the same responsible landholders.
(2) A CEA on which the permanent planting project activity will be undertaken must either:
(a) contain no remnant plantation forest; or
(b) contain only remnant plantation forest.
Classification of CEAs
(3) A CEA is classified according to the project activity to be undertaken as follows:
(a) a new plantation CEA, for the new plantation project activity;
(b) a conversion CEA, for the conversion project activity;
(c) a continuing plantation CEA, for the continuing plantation project activity;
(d) an ex-plantation CEA, for the permanent planting project activity A or B.
(4) An ex-plantation CEA is classified as:
(a) a permanent planting CEA if it contains no remnant plantation forest; and
(b) a remnant plantation CEA if it contains only remnant plantation forest.
(5) A permanent planting CEA is classified as:
(a) a permanent planting (environmental) CEA if:
(i) all species planted are native to the local area; and
(ii) the CEA contains a mix of trees, shrubs and understorey species that reflect the structure and composition of the local native vegetation community; or
(b) a permanent planting (ex-commercial) CEA otherwise.
Note: A monoculture may satisfy subparagraph (a)(ii) where it can naturally occur within the local vegetation community.
(6) A remnant plantation CEA is classified as:
(a) a remnant plantation A CEA for the permanent planting project activity A; or
(b) a remnant plantation B CEA for the permanent planting project activity B.
Note: The project activity in a remnant plantation B CEA will consist of maintaining the plantation up to a clearfell. After that it will become a permanent planting (environmental) CEA—see section 17.
Additional requirements
(7) A CEA must have an area of at least 0.2 hectares.
(8) The whole of a new plantation CEA, a conversion CEA or a continuing plantation CEA must consist of a plantation forest that has a single forest start date, and has been under the same management regime at all times, with the same starting date for each rotation, since that date.