Declaration of an Approved Wildlife Trade Operation - Venom Supplies

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

DECLARATION OF AN
APPROVED WILDLIFE TRADE OPERATION

I, Paul Murphy, Assistant Secretary, Wildlife Trade and Biosecurity Branch, as Delegate of the Minister for the Environment under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (the Act), am satisfied that an operation involving the wild harvest, keeping and breeding of snakes by Venom Supplies of South Australia, is a small-scale operation as defined by Regulation 9A.20 (2) under Section 303FN (10)(b) of the Act. I declare under subsection 303FN(2) that Venom Supplies’ operation is an Approved Wildlife Trade Operation.

Unless amended or revoked, this declaration has effect subject to the following conditions applied under S303FT:

1. The operation is undertaken in accordance with the proposal submitted by Venom Supplies on 6 August 2014;
2. Collection of animals for the wild must be done in accordance with a state/territory permit/licence to take animals from the wild that prescribes the species and number of each species to be collected;
3. Initially only specimens derived from snakes included in the list of species recorded in Appendix 1 of the proposal can be exported. Additional species can be exported only after written approval by the Department of the Environment;
4. Export is excluded for specimens derived from species that are included on the list of threatened species (excluding conservation dependant category) established under section 178 of the Act;
5. Copies of state collection permits are supplied to Wildlife Trade Assessments section within 30 days of their renewal;
6. This declaration is valid for a period of three years from the date of gazettal of this declaration.

Dated this    22      day of December 2014

Signed by Paul Murphy

Delegate of the Minister for the Environment

Subject to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975, a person or persons whose interests are affected by this declaration may, within 28 days, make an application in writing to the Department of the Environment for the reasons for the decision. An application for independent review of the decision may be made to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, on payment of the relevant fee, by or on behalf of the person or persons whose interests are affected, either within 28 days of receipt of the reasons for the decision, or within 28 days of this declaration if reasons for the decision are not sought. Further information may be obtained from:

Director, Wildlife Trade Assessments

Department of the Environment

GPO Box 787

CANBERRA ACT 2601

Telephone: (02) 6274 2880 Facsimile: (02) 6274 1921