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Welcome to the Coal sector of the DTI’s Energy Group web site.
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: Bronwen
Northmore. These include:
- policy
towards increasing the
competitiveness of the UK
coal industry;
- awareness
of environmental regulations and their impact on the coal industry
- management
of the UK
Coal Operating Aid Scheme (UKCOAS) Tranche 4
- management
of the UK
Coal Investment 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 – Deputy Director:
Peter Vaughan. 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
- 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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