EPBC Act policy statements
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (EPBC Act) policy statements are the Department's public policy documents which provide guidance on the practical application of EPBC Act. The policy statements include:
1. Significant impact guidelines
The significant impact guidelines provide over arching guidance on determining whether an action is likely to have a significant impact on a matter of national environmental significance protected by the EPBC Act. These guidelines replace the EPBC Act administrative guidelines on significance (July 2000).
- 1.1 Significant impact guidelines - matters of national environmental significance
- 1.2 Significant impact guidelines - actions on, or impacting upon, Commonwealth land and actions by commonwealth agencies
2. Industry
Industry guidelines provide specific guidance for industry sectors and should be read in conjunction with the significant impact guidelines.
These guidelines are in preparation:
- 2.3 Wind farms
- 2.4 Agriculture
- 2.5 Urban development
- 2.6 Local government
3. Nationally threatened species and ecological communities
Nationally threatened species and ecological communities guidelines provide guidance on specific threatened species and ecological communities and should be read in conjunction with the significant impact guidelines.
- 3.1 Bluegrass ecological community
- 3.2 Grey-headed Flying Fox
- 3.3 Spectacled Flying Fox
- 3.4 Tiger Quoll
- 3.5 White Box - Yellow Box - Blakely's Red Gum Grassy Woodlands and Derived Native Grasslands
- 3.6 Tasmanian Devil (Sarcophilus harrisii)
- 3.7 Peppermint Box (Eucalyptus odorata) Grassy Woodland of South Australia and Iron-grass Natural Temperate Grassland of South Australia
4. EPBC Act practices and procedures
In the context of the EPBC Act, offsets are a mechanism available through environmental impact assessment and approvals processes to compensate for the impacts of developments on those matters of national environmental significance protected by the EPBC Act.
- 4.1 Draft Policy Statement: Use of environmental offsets under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
- Practice guide 1 - Prior authorisation and continuing use exemptions - Sections 43A and 43B
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