Sustainability-related Regulations Database

20 Results for "C6"

Environmental Protection Act 1986
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This legislation establishes a comprehensive framework for the management, protection, and conservation of public lands and waters, including their flora, fauna, and biodiversity, across the State. It creates a dedicated commission to oversee the sustainable use, preservation, and enjoyment of these natural resources. The law categorises various areas like national parks, State forests, and marine reserves, detailing processes for their vesting and ongoing management, ensuring permanent protection and considering Aboriginal cultural heritage. It outlines mechanisms for developing management plans, regulating activities such as timber harvesting, fishing, and aquaculture through permits and licences, and controlling forest diseases. The core purpose is to balance environmental conservation with community enjoyment and the sustainable use of natural assets.
National Enviromental Protection Council Victoria Act 1995
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It provides for the establishment of a national body responsible for coordinating environmental protection across Australia. This body develops and oversees national environment protection measures designed to ensure consistent environmental standards and prevent market distortions due to varying regional regulations. The measures cover areas like air and water quality, noise, hazardous wastes, and recycling, establishing national standards, goals, guidelines, and protocols. Their development involves public consultation and considers environmental, economic, and social impacts. The framework defines governmental responsibilities for implementing and annually reporting on the effectiveness of these national measures. Specific compliance requirements for industries, such as agriculture, are then derived from subsequent laws enacted by participating jurisdictions to give effect to these national guidelines.
Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988
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This legislation establishes a comprehensive framework for the conservation and sustainable management of Victoria's native flora and fauna. Its purpose is to ensure the long-term persistence and recovery of all species and communities, protect biodiversity, and mitigate threats from human activities and environmental changes. The law achieves this by enabling the listing of threatened species and processes, mandating conservation strategies and action plans, and allowing for the determination and protection of critical habitats. It regulates activities such as taking, trading, or keeping protected flora and fish through a permitting system. The legislation also provides powers for enforcement, ensuring compliance and accountability, particularly for industries operating within natural environments, to promote ecologically sustainable resource use.
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
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This legislation establishes a framework for protecting Australia's environment and conserving biodiversity, promoting ecologically sustainable development. It focuses on matters of national environmental significance such as World Heritage areas, threatened species, and protected marine environments. The framework requires environmental approvals for actions likely to have a significant impact on these matters, involving assessment processes and often specific conditions. It also implements a permit system for actions affecting protected species and cetaceans. The legislation aims to promote a cooperative approach across governments, communities, and Indigenous peoples, recognizing their role and knowledge in conservation efforts and assisting in international environmental responsibilities.
Nature Repair Act 2023
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A national voluntary framework is established to enhance and protect biodiversity across Australia's native species. Its core purpose is to promote ecological health, fulfill international biodiversity commitments, and contribute to preventing new extinctions. The framework encourages broad engagement from various participants, including landholders and private enterprise, with a special emphasis on supporting and integrating the unique role and knowledge of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in conservation. It provides a means for recognizing and valuing biodiversity outcomes, fostering investment in environmental improvements. Through this system, Australia aims to build national capacity and a knowledge base crucial for achieving its long-term biodiversity goals.
Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Act 1994
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This legislation establishes Australia's comprehensive regulatory system for agricultural and veterinary chemical products and their active constituents. Its purpose is to evaluate, register, and control these substances, ensuring human, animal, and environmental health and safety. It promotes ecologically sustainable development, enhances primary industry and manufacturing competitiveness, and fosters trade. The system aims to be cost-effective, efficient, predictable, and transparent, with opportunities for public involvement. It achieves uniformity across Australia, securing compliance through robust enforcement mechanisms. This framework manages product approval, manufacturing licensing, supply controls, and recalls, ensuring only safe and effective chemicals enter the market and are used responsibly.
Future Drought Fund Act 2019 Cth
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This legislation establishes the Future Drought Fund to enhance Australia's drought resilience. It transfers existing funds into this new fund, managed by the Future Fund Board to maximize long-term returns. Annually, $100 million is transferred from the Future Drought Fund to the Agriculture Future Drought Resilience Special Account, which enables the Drought Minister to provide grants and make arrangements for drought resilience projects, research, and technology adoption. A consultative committee provides advice on funding strategies, and all arrangements and grants are guided by a Drought Resilience Funding Plan. Information about grant recipients and projects is publicly available to ensure transparency.
Environment Protection Act 2019
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This legislation establishes a comprehensive framework for protecting and managing the Northern Territory’s environment, promoting ecologically sustainable development. It mandates environmental impact assessments and approvals for activities with potential significant environmental impact, alongside specific licensing for mining operations. A core aim is to ensure broad community involvement, recognising Aboriginal people’s role as stewards of their country in decision-making processes. The law imposes general obligations for environmental care, diligent site management, and transparent incident reporting, supported by financial provisions like bonds and levies. It provides robust enforcement powers, including notices and audits, to ensure compliance with environmental standards, facilitate remediation, and ensure rehabilitation duties are met, emphasizing due diligence from all parties to prevent environmental harm and ensure accountability.
Environment Protection Act 1997
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This legislation establishes a comprehensive framework aimed at safeguarding and improving environmental quality while protecting human health. It achieves this by actively promoting pollution prevention, clean production, material reuse and recycling, and waste minimisation practices. A core focus is also placed on effectively managing and remediating contaminated land. The framework outlines general environmental duties for individuals and organisations, requires environmental authorisations for specific activities, and mandates progressive environmental improvements. It empowers an Environment Protection Authority to oversee environmental monitoring, ensure compliance through various tools like environmental improvement plans, audits, and enforcement orders, and recover costs associated with environmental harm or remediation. This ensures environmental considerations are integrated into decision-making and accountability for pollution is maintained.
Nature Conservation Act 2014
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This legislation establishes a comprehensive framework for nature conservation and biodiversity protection within the Australian Capital Territory. It aims to safeguard native species, their habitats, ecological communities, and natural landforms while promoting ecologically sustainable development. The legislation defines roles for expert bodies, mandates strategic planning for conservation, and provides mechanisms for identifying and protecting threatened species and ecosystems. It regulates activities impacting native flora and fauna, sets up a system for managing nature reserves, and outlines a licensing framework for specific environmental interactions. Furthermore, it details compliance requirements for various entities, including landholders and agricultural organizations, covering adherence to management plans, record-keeping, reporting, and enforcement powers, all designed to ensure the long-term health and appreciation of the Territory's natural environment.
Agricultural Chemicals Distribution Control Act 1966
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This legislation establishes controls for the distribution of agricultural chemicals using both aircraft and ground equipment. Its primary purpose is to ensure the safe and responsible application of these substances across various agricultural sectors. The Act mandates specific licensing requirements for individuals operating chemical distribution equipment, such as pilots and commercial operators, and for contractors offering these services. It also defines the roles and powers of the chief executive, inspectors, and analysts for administration and enforcement. Key provisions include detailed rules for licence application, renewal, and conditions, as well as obligations for contractors to maintain comprehensive records of chemical distributions. The legislation grants inspectors powers to investigate compliance, allows for the designation of hazardous distribution areas, and addresses the use of faulty equipment. It also sets out offences and penalties to enforce adherence to its regulatory framework.
Vegetation Management act 1999
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This legislation establishes a comprehensive framework for managing the clearing of native vegetation. Its central purpose is to conserve diverse regional ecosystems, including endangered and at-risk vegetation, and prevent environmental harm such as land degradation, biodiversity loss, and disruption of ecological processes. It aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while supporting sustainable land use practices. The framework includes mechanisms for declaring ecologically significant areas, creating codes for accepted clearing activities like fodder harvesting and infrastructure development, and establishing detailed vegetation management maps. It also provides for property-specific mapping and area-based management plans. Robust enforcement powers, including compliance and restoration notices, ensure adherence to these provisions, guiding responsible land management and promoting environmental integrity through a precautionary approach.
Climate Change Net Zero Future Act 2023 No 48
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This legislation establishes a comprehensive framework for New South Wales to address climate change, fulfilling international commitments to limit global temperature increases and enhance climate resilience for a sustainable future. It sets ambitious targets to reduce net greenhouse gas emissions from 2005 levels: by at least 50% by 2030, 70% by 2035, and achieving net zero by 2050. An independent Net Zero Commission is established to monitor progress towards these emission reduction and adaptation objectives, provide expert advice and recommendations to the government, and educate businesses and individuals on climate action. While the legislation mandates government action and oversight, it does not impose direct compliance requirements on private agricultural organizations, instead focusing on informing and advising sectors like agriculture on climate change initiatives.
Forestry Act 2012 No 96
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This legislation establishes a comprehensive framework for the dedication, management, and use of State forests and Crown-timber land in New South Wales. It creates the Forestry Corporation of New South Wales as a statutory body responsible for these lands. The Act aims for the Corporation to operate as a successful, efficient business, maximising the State's investment, while also upholding principles of ecologically sustainable development. Key aspects include regulating timber and forest product harvesting through licensing and fees, facilitating public access and recreational use, conserving fauna, and enabling renewable energy infrastructure in designated areas. It ensures forest operations are managed sustainably, integrating environmental regulations and providing for enforcement to maintain compliance across forestry activities.
Marine Estate Management Act 2014 No 72
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It establishes a framework for the strategic coordination and management of the New South Wales marine estate, including marine parks and aquatic reserves, aligning with ecologically sustainable development principles. It aims to foster a biologically diverse, healthy, and productive marine environment, while facilitating economic opportunities and cultural, social, and recreational uses. Key provisions include establishing advisory bodies, requiring a comprehensive management strategy, and setting rules for declaring and managing marine parks and aquatic reserves. This involves defining zones, regulating activities, prohibiting mining, and ensuring development proposals consider environmental impacts and ministerial concurrence within or near these protected areas. It also covers enforcement and funding for marine conservation efforts.
Plant Biosecurity Act 2010
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This legislation establishes a comprehensive system to safeguard plant health in Victoria. Its primary purpose is to prevent, monitor, control, and eradicate plant pests and diseases, ensuring biosecurity within the state and regulating the movement of plants, plant products, and associated materials. It sets out stringent requirements for importation and possession, including mandatory certifications like assurance and plant health declarations. The Act empowers inspectors to enforce controls, manage infected areas, and direct the treatment or disposal of diseased materials. It also specifies obligations for agricultural organizations and individuals, covering property identification, pest notification, and packaging standards. The framework includes provisions for compliance agreements, accreditation, cost recovery, and outlines penalties for various offenses, all designed to protect Victoria's agricultural sector.
Agriculture and Related Resources Protection Act 1976
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This legislation establishes a comprehensive framework for the management, control, and prevention of specific plants and animals, primarily to safeguard agriculture and related resources. It empowers the designation of certain plants and animals as declared pests, assigning them categories that dictate required control measures such as eradication, population reduction, or prevention of spread. The framework also regulates their introduction, movement, and keeping, including the management of native declared animals through approved programs. Furthermore, it governs the safe storage, use, and transport of agricultural chemicals to prevent harm. Agricultural organizations are mandated to comply with specific control actions for declared pests, adhere to biosecurity protocols, and follow strict regulations for chemical handling, supported by powers of inspection and enforcement.
Biosecurity and Agriculture Management Act 2007
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This legislation establishes a comprehensive framework for managing biosecurity and agriculture across Western Australia. It controls the entry, establishment, spread, and impact of organisms that could harm the environment, human health, or agricultural, fishing, and pearling activities. The framework also regulates the safe and responsible use of agricultural and veterinary chemicals, sets standards for the safety and quality of agricultural products, and prohibits adulteration. Key provisions include import restrictions, management of declared pests, and enforcement powers for inspectors. Financial mechanisms are established to fund biosecurity initiatives, ensuring the state's agricultural integrity and environmental health are protected.
Soil and Land Conservation Act 1945
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This legislation establishes a comprehensive framework for conserving soil and land resources and mitigating degradation from erosion, salinity, and flooding. It aims to prevent land degradation and promote sustainable land use through education, surveys, and the design of preventive measures. The law creates the Commissioner of Soil and Land Conservation, a Soil and Land Conservation Council, and local Land Conservation Districts to administer and coordinate conservation efforts. It enables the declaration of Soil Conservation Reserves, the implementation of Conservation Covenants, and the issuance of Soil Conservation Notices to regulate land management practices. Landholders are required to comply with approved codes of practice, district regulations, and notices. The legislation also provides for the imposition of rates or service charges to fund conservation initiatives, binding agreements for vegetation protection, and restrictions on activities within reserves. It mandates reporting requirements for changes in land ownership subject to these instruments.
Waterways Conservation Act 1976
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This legislation establishes a comprehensive framework for the conservation and management of waters, including rivers, inlets, and estuaries, and their associated land and environment. Its purpose is to prevent and control pollution, preserve and enhance environmental quality, and ensure the sustainable management of these natural resources. The law empowers the responsible Minister to define management areas, develop and implement detailed plans, and issue licences for activities that may impact waterways. It outlines powers for pollution control, including the ability to issue orders and undertake remedial works, supported by enforcement mechanisms. The legislation also sets out specific requirements for various sectors, such as agriculture, concerning waste discharge, monitoring, and adherence to environmental standards, promoting coordinated action for waterway health.