5Prescribed program

5 Prescribed program

(1) For the purposes of subsection 33(1) of the Act, the Zero Net Emissions from Agriculture Cooperative Research Centre Partnership Program (the program) is prescribed. (2) The program provides funding for the Commonwealth to participate as a partner to the CRC, including by the payment of partnership fees. (3) The purpose of the program is to influence and shape the CRC’s activities relating to the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions in the agricultural sector to help align with the Commonwealth’s emissions mitigation objectives across the economy, and contribute to meeting Australia’s obligations under Article 4 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Article 10 of the Kyoto Protocol and Article 4 of the Paris Agreement.