The Federal Government has released draft regulations for the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, including the first tranche of activities that will be eligible for assistance under the emissions intensive, trade exposed (EITE) assistance program. 
 
To date, eighteen draft activity definitions have been approved by the Government and published on the Department of Climate Change website. The first tranche of draft regulations for EITE assistance covered eight activities (carbon black production, bulk flat glass production, glass container production, methanol production, silicon production, white titanium dioxide pigment production, zinc smelting, and newsprint manufacturing). The draft regulations contain the categories of assistance and allocative baselines for these activities, which have submitted audited data to the Department of Climate Change. 
 
The Government has also released an accompanying paper explaining the framework within which the eligibility of these and future activities are being assessed for the Government's EITE assistance program. These along with draft regulations and commentary are available on the Department of Climate Change website and public submissions on the draft regulations are invited before 14 August 2009.