EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act, 1999
Amendment of the List of Exempt Native Specimens in accordance with Section 303DC
(Issued under the Authority of the Minister for the Environment and Heritage)
Section 303DB of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (the Act) provides for the establishment of a list of exempt native specimens. Specimens included on the list are exempt from the export control provisions that apply to regulated native specimens.
The effect of this instrument is to add the following specimens to the list of exempt native specimens and to make those inclusions subject to the notations specified below:
- Specimens that are or are derived from fish or invertebrates, other than specimens that belong to species listed under Part 13 of the Act, taken in the East Coast Pearl Fishery, as defined in the regime, made under the Queensland Fisheries Regulations 1995, in force under the Fisheries Act 1994.
Notations –
- The specimen, or the fish or invertebrate from which it is derived, was taken lawfully;
- The specimen is included on the list until 20 January 2010.
Listing of the specimens described above on the list of exempt native specimens will allow continued export of these specimens for the next five years.
In determining to include the above specimens in the list of exempt native specimens regard was had to the Australian Government’s Guidelines for the ecologically sustainable management of fisheries. Those Guidelines establish the criteria for assessment of the ecological sustainability of the relevant fisheries management arrangements.
The proposed listing of these specimens was publicised and comments sought. All comments received have been taken into consideration in the assessment of whether the specimens should be listed.
Details (copies of the assessment, the instrument and related correspondence to the Minister responsible for the affected fishery) are available at the following website: http://www.deh.gov.au/coasts/fisheries/assessment/index.html
This instrument is a legislative instrument for the purposes of the Legislative Instruments Act 2003.
The instrument commenced on the day after it was registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments.