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 (the EPBC Act) provides for the establishment of a list of exempt native specimens. Specimens included on the list are exempt from the trade control provisions that apply to regulated native specimens.
The effect of this instrument is to delete from the list of exempt native specimens the following specimens and any associated notations:
- 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 Northern Territory Shark Fishery.
In determining to include the specimens in the list of exempt native specimens regard was had to the Australian Government’s Guidelines for the Ecologically Sustainable Management of Fisheries – 2nd Edition. Those Guidelines establish the criteria for assessment of the ecological sustainability of the relevant fisheries management arrangements.
In accordance with section 303DC of the EPBC Act, consultation was undertaken with the following Ministers of the Commonwealth and of each State and self-governing Territory: the Hon Chris Natt MLA, Minister for Primary Industry, Fisheries and Mines.
Consultation was also undertaken in accordance with section 303DC(3)(c) of the EPBC Act. This extended to the Northern Territory Department of Primary Industry, Fisheries and Mines.
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.
Unique Identifying Number: EPBC303DC/SFS/2007/22