The former provides full excise reimbursement to ethanol producers for ethanol produced and supplied for transport use in Australia from locally derived feedstocks (Australian Government, 2012a). This programme is planned to continue until June 2021 and to be revised afterwards (Australian Government, 2012a). The latter is a similar scheme, but applies to the production and also importation of biodiesel and has been extended indefinately from July 2011 (Australian Government, 2012b). In Canada output based payments were introduced in 2008 and replaced tax exemptions at federal level and at some provinces.