Key Points:
While assistance to Emissions Intensive Trade Exposed activities
remains largely unchanged, specific industries have been singled
out for additional assistance while others have been left out, once
again. This is the impact of the Government's new "Jobs
and Competitiveness Program".
A key component of the Clean Energy Future package is the
revamped EITE assistance program, called the "Jobs and
Competitiveness Program". It provides details about the
assistance to specific activities and industries. In this article
we'll give a brief overview sector by sector, and a fuller
analysis in the next few days.
EITE assistance
As many operators of Emissions Intensive Trade Exposed Industry
(EITE) activities would be aware, negotiations and discussions with
the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency about
qualification and levels of assistance that started during the CPRS
in 2009-10 quickly recommenced after the announcement of the
framework for
