Amendment of List of Exempt Native Specimens - Queensland East Coast Otter Trawl Fishery and Western Australian South Coast Crustacean Fishery (09/11/2016)

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EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

 

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

 

Amendment of the List of Exempt Native Specimens in accordance with Section 303DC

 

Section 303DB of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) provides for the establishment of a list of exempt native specimens. Specimens included in the list are exempt from the trade control provisions that apply to regulated native specimens.

 

The instrument deletes specimens from the list of exempt native specimens that are taken in the Western Australian South Coast Crustacean Fishery and the Queensland East Coast Otter Trawl Fishery.

 

The instrument also includes specimens from the same fisheries in the list of exempt native specimens, with notations that inclusion of the specimens in the list are subject to restrictions or conditions that the specimen, or the fish or invertebrate from which it is derived, was taken lawfully, and that the specimens are included in the list until the dates specified in Schedule 2.

 

The effect of this instrument is to extend the export approval for the specimens until the dates specified in Schedule 2.

 

Subsection 303DC(3) of the EPBC Act provides that before amending the list, the Minister for the Environment and Energy must consult such other Commonwealth minister or ministers and such other minister or ministers of each state and self-governing territory, as the minister considers appropriate. The minister may also consult with such other persons and organisations as the minister considers appropriate. In this instance, the Delegate of the Minister for the Environment and Energy consulted with the Western Australian Department of Fisheries and the Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries as the Western Australian Department of Fisheries and the Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries have management responsibilities for the fisheries concerned.

 

This instrument is a legislative instrument for the purposes of the Legislation Act 2003.

 

The instrument commenced on the day after it was registered on the Federal Register of Legislation.

 

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