The last day of the 2011-12 National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting (NGER) reporting year is 30 June 2012.
The Clean Energy Regulator (CER) has made available the following information to assist you with assessing whether your organisation is liable to report under NGER Act.
“The Clean Energy Regulator administers the NGER Act and carries out regulatory functions including:
- “registering and deregistering corporations for reporting
- management of the National Greenhouse and Energy Register
- receiving reports
- monitoring compliance and enforcing the legislation arranging for external audits to be carried out, and
- publishing and disclosing NGER data and managing the security of the data”.
Who should report?
“If a corporation meets or exceeds any one or more of the thresholds for a reporting year (ie 2008–09 onwards), it must register and report for the first year a threshold is reached. Corporations must then report for each subsequent year that they remain registered”.
Penalties
“Corporations that fail to register and report or otherwise comply with obligations under the NGER Act may be liable for penalties. Penalty provisions are set out in Part 5 of the NGER Act.
As an example, the penalty for failure to apply for registration is 2,000 penalty units. An additional civil penalty may also be incurred for each day after the due date that a controlling corporation fails to apply for registration. Obligations under the NGER Act continue, even if the period has expired or the due date has passed”.
