Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative—Plantation Forestry) Methodology Determination 2022
Part 3Management regimes
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Part 3—Management regimes
8 The default baseline management regime (conversion CEA)
(1) For this determination, the default baseline management regime for a conversion CEA is the management regime for the CEA that is specified by the elements indicated in the following table:
- Default baseline management regime
- Item Element of management regime If a rotation was not in progress on the eligibility date: If a rotation was in progress on the eligibility date:
- 1 Choice of species The choice of species that was applied in the last rotation that was completed before the eligibility date (the completed rotation) The choice of species that was applied, prior to the eligibility date, in the rotation that was in progress on the eligibility date (the ongoing rotation)
- 2 Rotation period The baseline rotation period The baseline rotation period
- 3 Management actions Whichever of the following applies:(a) if there were no disturbance events in the completed rotation—the management actions that were applied in the completed rotation;(b) if there were one or more disturbance events in the completed rotation—the management actions that would have been applied in the normal course of the completed rotation Whichever of the following applies:(a) if, before the eligibility date, there were no disturbance events in the ongoing rotation—the following:(i) the management actions that were applied in the rotation before the eligibility date;(ii) the management actions that would have been applied in the normal course of the rotation after the eligibility date;(b) if, before the eligibility date, there were one or more disturbance events in the ongoing rotation—the management actions that would have been applied in the normal course of the ongoing rotation
- 4 Disturbance events None None.
(2) For this clause, a set of management actions is taken to be one that would have been applied in the normal course of a rotation if it can be demonstrated that:
(a) the actions were taken at the corresponding stages of previous rotations of the plantation, in circumstances that were not unusual; or
(b) they are commonly taken in such plantations in the region at those stages of the rotation.