Greenhouse and Energy Minimum Standards Bill 2012 [Provisions] and Greenhouse and Energy Minimum Standards (Registration Fees) Bill 2012 [Provisions]
Information about the Inquiry
On 21 June 2012 the Senate jointly referred the Greenhouse and Energy Minimum Standards (Registration Fees) Bill 2012 and the Greenhouse and Energy Minimum Standards Bill 2012 for inquiry and report.
The Greenhouse and Energy Minimum Standards Bill 2012 seeks to establish a national legislative framework for regulating the energy efficiency of products supplied or used within Australia. The bill would provide a national and expanded Equipment Energy Efficiency (E3) Program.
The Greenhouse and Energy Minimum Standards (Registration Fees) Bill 2012 would enable the government to charge registration fees as part of the E3 Program.
Submissions should be received by 12 July 2012. The reporting date is 15 August 2012.
The Committee is seeking written submissions from interested individuals and organisations preferably in electronic form submitted online or sent by email to ec.sen@aph.gov.au as an attached Adobe PDF or MS Word format document. The email must include full postal address and contact details.
Alternatively, written submissions may be sent to:
Committee Secretary
Senate Standing Committees on Environment and Communications
PO Box 6100
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600
Australia
Notes to help you prepare your submission are available from the website at https://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/wit_sub/index.htm. Alternatively, the Committee Secretariat will be able to help you with your inquiries and can be contacted on telephone +61 2 6277 3526 or facsimile +61 2 6277 5818 or by email to ec.sen@aph.gov.au.
Inquiries from hearing and speech impaired people should be directed to Parliament House TTY number 02 6277 7799. Adobe also provides tools at http://access.adobe.com/ for the blind and visually impaired to access PDF documents. If you require any special arrangements to enable you to participate in the Committee's inquiry, please contact the Committee Secretariat.
Once the Committee accepts your submission, it becomes a confidential Committee document and is protected by Parliamentary Privilege. You must not release your submission without the Committee's permission. If you do, it will not be protected by Parliamentary Privilege. At some stage during the inquiry, the Committee normally makes submissions public and places them on its website. Please indicate if you want your submission to be kept confidential.
For further information, contact: Committee Secretary
Senate Standing Committees on Environment and Communications
PO Box 6100
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600
Australia