Compliance and enforcement
EPBC Act fact sheet
Department of the Environment and Water Resources, March 2007
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About the fact sheet
Amendments to the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) have enhanced the Act's compliance and enforcement regime and made it easier and quicker to bring compliance action against people and organisations that breach the EPBC Act.
This fact sheet provides information of the amendments, which commenced on 19 February 2007:
- introduce strict liability to elements of a number of offences
- introduce new penalty provisions
- provide a broader range of enforcement options including financial undertakings and remediation action
- strengthen and rationalise investigation and enforcement procedures, including powers under warrants and powers of seizure.
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