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Welcome to the Coal sector of the DTI’s Energy Group web site.
DTI's responsibilities concerning coal industry issues cover both matters relating to the UK coal production industries, dealt with by the Energy Innovation and Business Unit (EIBU), and a variety of obligations arising from the period of public ownership to 1994, dealt with by the Nuclear and Coal Liabilities Unit (NCLU). EIBU is also responsible for DTI's clean coal technology
programmes.
Specifically, the work we do covers:
Coal industry issues - Director: Peter
Mason. These include:
- policy towards and competitiveness of the British coal industry;
- management of the UK Coal Operating Aid Scheme
- UK's obligations relating to coal under the European Treaties, in particular the EU's coal state aids
regime.
Coal health claims - Director: Ann
Taylor.
Other coal issues inherited by DTI from British Coal - Director: Peter Mason
These include:
- supervision of the regulatory and other arrangements established by the Coal Industry Act 1994;
- sponsorship and funding of the Coal Authority and the November 2002 quinquennial
review
(PDF, 681 Kb)
- sponsorship, funding and management of the British Coal Corporation, pending its eventual dissolution;
- enforcement of DTI's rights under the 1994 privatisation agreements:
- supervision of contracts for delivery of concessionary coal to certain ex-British Coal employees;
- representation of Government's interest as Guarantor of the coal industry's pension funds.
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