EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

Instrument under section 184(1)(d)

(Issued under the Authority of the Minister for the Environment and Water Resources)

The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (the Act) places certain obligations on the Commonwealth to protect and conserve threatened species and ecological communities, and recognise, and where possible, abate key threatening processes listed on the list of threatened species, ecological communities and key threatening processes under the Act.

The purpose of this instrument is to amend the list of threatened species under the Act in accordance with paragraph 184(1)(d) of the Act by updating the scientific names of threatened species referred to in that list in accordance with Schedule A (attached).

As these amendments are machinery in nature, consultation was not considered necessary.

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.