Clean Fuel Regulations (SOR/2022-140)

Marginal note:Agreement to create credits

• 21 (1) A registered creator may, before they have created any provisional compliance credits, enter into an agreement to create compliance credits for a compliance period

  • (a) with a person who is carrying out a CO₂e-emission-reduction project described in section 30 or a person who is referred to in subsection 98(1), 99(1), 101(1), 102(1) or 104(1); or

  • (b) with a producer who is referred to in subsection 94(1), 95(1), 96(1) or 100(1), if the agreement applies only to the creation of compliance credits through the production of a quantity of low-carbon-intensity fuel in Canada.

• Marginal note:Validity of agreement — requirements

  (2) The agreement is not valid unless it is signed by the authorized agents of each of the parties to the agreement and contains the following information:

  • (a) with respect to each party to the agreement,

    • (i) their name, civic address, postal address, telephone number and, if any, email address,

    • (ii) the name, title, civic address, postal address, telephone number and, if any, email address of their authorized agent, and

    • (iii) the name, title, civic address, postal address, telephone number and, if any, email address of a contact person, unless the contact person is the authorized agent;

  • (b) an indication of the compliance period to which the agreement relates;

  • (c) if the agreement relates to a CO₂e-emission-reduction project described in section 30,

    • (i) the name of the facility at which the project is carried out or, if the equipment with which it is carried out is not within a facility, the name of that equipment,

    • (ii) the GPS coordinates to the fifth decimal place and, if any, civic address of that facility or equipment, and

    • (iii) an indication of the type of co-processed low-carbon-intensity fuel produced at the facility, if applicable;

  • (d) if the agreement relates to the production of the fuel referred to in subsection 94(1), 95(1), 96(1) or 100(1) in a facility, with respect to each facility where the fuel is produced,

    • (i) the name, GPS coordinates to the fifth decimal place and, if any, civic address of that facility, and

    • (ii) an indication of the type of fuel produced at the facility;

  • (e) if the agreement relates to the supply of a fuel referred to in subsection 98(1) or 99(1) at fuelling stations, with respect to each fuelling station,

    • (i) the name, GPS coordinates to the fifth decimal place and, if any, civic address of the fuelling station, and

    • (ii) an indication of the type of fuel supplied by the fuelling station;

  • (f) if the agreement is with a charging-network operator referred to in subsection 102(1), with respect to each charging station in the charging-network operator’s network,

    • (i) an indication of the province in which it is located, and

    • (ii) an indication of whether it is intended primarily for use by the occupants of a private dwelling-place, for use by the public or for another use;

  • (g) if the agreement is with a charging-site host referred to in subsection 101(1), with respect to each charging station that the charging-site host owns or leases,

    • (i) an indication of the province in which it is located, and

    • (ii) the name of the charging-network operator, if any, who operates the communication platform that collects data from the charging station; and

  • (h) if the agreement is with an owner or operator referred to in subsection 104(1) of one or more hydrogen fuelling stations, the name, GPS coordinates to the fifth decimal place and, if any, civic address of each fuelling station.