Emissions Trading Scheme forms and making payment
Find the forms and documents you may need when registering and managing forestry in the Emissions Trading Scheme, and make a payment.
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Use the online ETS system
Some of the forestry ETS forms can be completed online using our ETS online system.
Registering in the ETS
- Apply to be registered as a post-1989 forest participant [PDF, 563 KB]
Changes to your ETS registration
- Transfer of participation (transfer) [PDF, 677 KB]
- Transfer of participation (expiry/termination) [PDF, 540 KB]
- Opt-in participation form [PDF, 206 KB]
Deregistering as an ETS participant
- Participant deregistration – post 1989 [PDF, 587 KB]
- Notify pre-1990 participant deregistration [PDF, 355 KB]
Adding or removing land from your ETS registration
- Add a Carbon Accounting Area (CAA) [PDF, 977 KB]
- Remove a Carbon Accounting Area (CAA) [PDF, 643 KB]
- Remove land from a Carbon Accounting Area (CAA) [PDF, 577 KB]
- Additional Carbon Accounting Areas (CAA) [PDF, 180 KB]
Emissions returns
- Emissions return (5 year mandatory) [PDF, 563 KB]
- Emissions return (voluntary) [PDF, 648 KB]
- Emissions return (transmission) [PDF, 463 KB]
- Emissions return (unit surrender) [PDF, 1.3 MB]
- Emissions return (pre-1990 deforestation) [PDF, 805 KB]
Field Measurement Approach (FMA)
- Assign forest class – email climatechange@mpi.govt.nz for participant-specific form
- Request a sample plot waiver (permanent) [PDF, 305 KB]
- Request a sample plot waiver (temporary) [PDF, 310 KB]
- Request to allocate permanent sample plot locations – email climatechange@mpi.govt.nz for participant-specific form
Deforestation of pre-1990 forest land
- Notify pre-1990 deforestation [PDF, 573 KB]
- Emissions return (pre-1990 deforestation) [PDF, 805 KB]
- Apply for a deforestation exemption (less than 50 Hectare) [PDF, 265 KB]
Pre-1990 forest offsetting
- Pre-1990 forest land offsetting [PDF, 578 KB]
Other forms
- Additional properties [PDF, 215 KB]
- Approval of authorised representative [PDF, 246 KB]
- Interested party consent [PDF, 251 KB]
- Joint applicant contact details [PDF, 154 KB]
- Person to receive notices [PDF, 181 KB]
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