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Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

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Summary

The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 is the Australian Government’s central piece of environmental legislation. It provides a legal framework to protect and manage nationally and internationally important flora, fauna, ecological communities and heritage places — defined in the EPBC Act as matters of national environmental significance.

Source
Issuer

Australia

Year

1999

Region

Oceania

Issuer (type)

Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment (Government)

Instrument type

Act

Disclosure instrument

No

Geographical scope

National

Mandatory or voluntary

Mandatory

Text analysis

    • Moderate 0.72%
    • Low 0.00%
    • E focus: conservation, degradation, environment, fisheries, forests, hazardous waste, radioactive waste, waste, water, wetlands, biodiversity
    • S focus: community involvement, diversity
    • G focus: audit
    • Agriculture, Information, Management, Mining, Public administration, Transportation