Canadian Greenhouse Gas Offset Credit System Regulations — 8
Conditions of registration 8 (1) Subject to section 9 , a project, of a type for which a protocol has been included in the Compendium of Federal Offset Protocols, may be registered in the offset credit system if its proponent submits an application for registration to the Minister that includes the information set out in Schedule 1 and the following conditions are met: (a) the proponent is an individual who resides in Canada or, if the proponent is not an individual, the proponent has a place of business in Canada; (b) the proponent has exclusive entitlement to claim the credits issued for the GHG reductions generated by the project; (c) the proponent has the necessary authorizations to carry out the project activities; (d) prior to the project start date, the baseline conditions set out in the protocol to be eligible under that protocol are met; (e) the activities undertaken as part of the project to prevent GHGs from being emitted or to remove GHGs from the atmosphere are set out in the applicable protocol; (f) the reductions that the project could generate would be additional; (g) the project is not registered in any other offset credit system; (h) no credits will be attributed under another GHG reduction mechanism for the GHG reductions generated by the project; (i) no provincial offset credit protocol in the province in which the project is situated, established under an offset credit program for that province, covers the same activities as those set out in the applicable federal protocol; (j) with respect to a sequestration project, (i) the proponent has specified whether the tonne-tonne, tonne-year or hybrid tonne-year quantification method, as set out in the protocol, will be used for the duration of the project, and (ii) in the case of a proponent opting for the tonne-tonne or hybrid tonne-year quantification method, the proponent has established a reversal risk management plan in accordance with section 21 ; (k) a previous registration by the proponent of the project under these Regulations has not been cancelled as a result of a voluntary reversal; (l) neither the proponent nor their authorized official has been found guilty of an offence under section 380 of the Criminal Code , within five years prior to submitting the application for registration; and (m) the application for registration is submitted within the time limits set out in section 10 . Exception — provincial protocol (2) Despite paragraph (1)(i), in the case where a provincial offset credit protocol, established under an offset credit program for that province, applies to the activities undertaken as part of a project, the project may be registered if: (a) the provincial protocol is published after the federal protocol is included in the Compendium of Federal Offset Protocols; and (b) the application for registration is submitted no more than six months after the day on which the project could have been registered in the provincial offset credit program under that protocol. Declaration (3) The application for registration must be accompanied by a declaration, dated and signed by the proponent or their authorized official, stating that the information contained in the application is accurate and complete. Project in more than one province (4) If a project is situated in more than one province, the proponent must register, as distinct projects, the portions of the project situated in each province. Request to open account (5) The proponent, in accordance with subsection 186(1) of the Act, must submit a request to open a GHG Offset Credit System account in the tracking system if they do not already have such an account.