ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION ACT 1999 - SECT 271 Content of threat abatement plans

ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION ACT 1999 - SECT 271

  (1)   A threat abatement plan must provide for the research, management and other actions necessary to reduce the key threatening process concerned to an acceptable level in order to maximise the chances of the long - term survival in nature of native species and ecological communities affected by the process.

  (2)   In particular, a threat abatement plan must:

  (a)   state the objectives to be achieved; and

  (b)   state criteria against which achievement of the objectives is to be measured; and

  (c)   specify the actions needed to achieve the objectives; and

  (g)   meet prescribed criteria (if any) and contain provisions of a prescribed kind (if any).

  (3)   In making a threat abatement plan, regard must be had to:

  (a)   the objects of this Act; and

  (b)   the most efficient and effective use of the resources that are allocated for the conservation of species and ecological communities; and

  (c)   minimising any significant adverse social and economic impacts consistently with the principles of ecologically sustainable development; and

  (d)   meeting Australia's obligations under international agreements between Australia and one or more countries relevant to the species or ecological community threatened by the key threatening process that is the subject of the plan; and

  (e)   the role and interests of indigenous people in the conservation of Australia's biodiversity.

  (4)   A threat abatement plan may:

  (a)   state the estimated duration and cost of the threat abatement process; and

  (b)   identify organisations or persons who will be involved in evaluating the performance of the threat abatement plan; and

  (c)   specify any major ecological matters (other than the species or communities threatened by the key threatening process that is the subject of the plan) that will be affected by the plan's implementation.

  (5)   Subsection   (4) does not limit the matters that a threat abatement plan may include.