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Climate Change Agreements
Guidance Note 5 – CCA Administration Charges
The objective of this guidance note is to explain what administration charges are made to sites that
have a CCA.
Introduction
The cost of administering a CCA is recovered from the owning organisations, or Operator, of each
facility that is part of a CCA. Administration is undertaken by both the Environment Agency and the
Sector Association; Food Storage & Distribution Federation, as part of their responsibilities under the
Climate Change Agreements as shown in the diagram below.
Environment Agency Fees
The charges for the CCA scheme made by the Environment Agency were calculated based on the
amounts they expected it to cost them to administer the scheme. These charges are set out in full in
a document available on the EA website.
Fees charged by the EA are currently £185 per site/facility per calendar year. This charge applies
whether a facility is in a CCA for all or part of a calendar year.
To simplify invoicing payment arrangements, the EA fee is collected by FSDF on behalf of the EA at
the same time as collecting the FSDF annual fees.
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Food Storage & Distribution Federation Fees
To cover the cost of all the administrative activities of the FSDF CCA, the FSDF agreed a set of
charges that will be applied on a PER SITE basis. The charges include a fee to join the CCA and an
annual fee to remain part of the CCA.
The joining fee is invoiced when your Application Form is processed and is non-refundable. The
annual fee will be invoiced when each year’s request for data is sent to each Participant.
Fees have been structured on the basis of small, medium and large sites. This has been done to
spread the burden of administrative costs fairly between different sizes of site and it reflects the
significantly higher level of Climate Change Levy discount that larger sites will obtain.
Different fee levels apply to members and non-members of the FSDF. This is to reflect the highly
significant cost that has been borne by the FSDF through months of negotiations with DECC to set up
the CCA. In the annual fee it reflects the on-going costs being borne by the Trade Association.
Fees will increase by RPI each year and current fees are summarised in the table below. The size
banding is based on the amount of delivered energy (see Guidance Notes 2 or 3) used in your base
year, as follows:
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Small sites
Medium sites
Large sites
Joining
Fee *
Annual
Fee *
up to 1 million kWh per year
from 1 million to 10 million kWh per year
from 10 million kWh per year
Trade Association
Members
£ per site
Non-Members
£ per site
Band A (Small)
170
567
Band B (Medium)
425
1135
Band C (Large)
851
2271
Band A (Small)
170
341
Band B (Medium)
425
851
Band C (Large)
851
1702
CCA Help Line
Tel:
0845 600 8122
Email: [email protected]
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