Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative—Savanna Fire Management—Sequestration and Emissions Avoidance) Methodology Determination 2026
28Requirements for projects with transferring project areas
Start here
Get a plain-English read of 28
Turn the raw legal text into a practical explanation grounded in Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative—Savanna Fire Management—Sequestration and Emissions Avoidance) Methodology Determination 2026.
28 Requirements for projects with transferring project areas
Projects that have a transferring project area
- If one or more project areas of a savanna sequestration project are transferring project areas, for each such project area, the following must be consecutive years:
- the final calendar year for which the project area was reported on under the former determination for the project area;
- the first calendar year for which the project area was reported on under this instrument.
Restarting transferring projects
- A restarting transferring project must be declared eligible in accordance with the process set out in the CFI Rules.
Note: See sections 30A and 30B of the Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) Rule 2015.
Project areas
- If:
- at the time a relevant decision on a transferring project area is made, the transferring project area includes a weed-affected area; and
- the relevant application indicates that the weed-affected area will be removed by the end of the reporting period for the former project in which it became a weed-affected area and before the transfer occurs;
the weed-affected area may be disregarded.
- In this section:
relevant application means a section 22 application, a section 29 application or a section 128 application.
relevant decision on a transferring project area means a decision on a relevant application that would result in a transferring project area becoming a project area, or part of a project area, of a project covered by this instrument.