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General
- Access to genetic resources publications
- Australian Antarctic Division publications
- Biodiversity publications
- Changes to the EPBC Act: What you need to know - 2006
- Coasts and oceans publications
- Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act fact sheet - 2008
- Farming and national environmental law: EPBC Act - factsheet (order printed copy)
- Genetic Resources Management in Commonwealth Areas - 2005
- Guide to the EPBC Act
- Heritage publications
- Marine protected areas publications
- New detention regime for suspected unauthorised non-citizen offenders - 2007
- Parks and reserves publications
- Species and ecological communities
- Water (including wetlands) publications
- Wildlife trade and conservation publications
Agreements
- Bilateral Agreements
- South Australia relating to environmental impact assessment
- New South Wales relating to environmental impact assessment
- New South Wales relating to the Sydney Opera House
- Northern Territory relating to environmental impact assessment
- Queensland relating to environmental impact assessment
- Tasmania relating to environmental impact assessment
- Western Australia relating to environmental impact assessment
- Conservation agreements list
- Heads of agreement on Commonwealth and State roles and responsibilities for the Environment
Compliance and enforcement
- Compliance audits completed in 2008 - Summary of findings - 2009
- Compliance audits completed in 2007 - Summary of findings - 2007
- Compliance audits completed in 2006 - Summary of findings - 2007
- Compliance auditing fact sheet - 2007
- Compliance and enforcement fact sheet - 2007
- Department of the Environment and Water Resources compliance and enforcement policy - 2004
Databases
- Protected Matters Search Tool - find protected matters in your area of interest
- Species Profile and Threats Database
- Australian Heritage Database
- Australian Wetlands Database
Environment assessments
- Prior authorisation and continuing use exemptions - sections 43A and 43B - 2009
- Strategic assessment under the EPBC Act - 2008
- Particular manner decisions - Section 77A - 2007
- Environment assessment flowchart
- Environment assessment process fact sheet - 2007
- Referral form - 2007
- Local government and Commonwealth environment law - 2003
- Staged developments / split referrals - 2003
Flowcharts
- Environment assessment process flowchart
- Fishery assessments
- Live import process
- Process for listing threatened species, ecological communities and key threatening process under the EPBC Act
- Referral process flowchart (part of the environment process flowchart)
- Steps in adopting a recovery plan
Policy statements
- 1.1 Significant impact guidelines - matters of national environmental significance - 2006
- 1.2 Significant impact guidelines - actions on, or impacting upon, Commonwealth land and actions by commonwealth agencies - 2006
- 2.1 Offshore seismic operations - 2008
- 2.2 Offshore aquaculture - 2006
- 3.1 Bluegrass ecological community - 2001
- 3.2 Grey-headed flying fox - 2003
- 3.3 Spectacled flying fox - 2003
- 3.4 Tiger quoll - 2004
- 3.4 Spot-tailed quoll - draft - 2009
- 3.5 White box - yellow box - Blakely's red gum grassy woodlands and derived native grasslands - 2006
- 3.6 Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) - 2006
- 3.7 Peppermint box (Eucalyptus odorata) grassy woodland of South Australia and iron-grass natural temperate grassland of South Australia - 2007
- 3.8 Natural temperate grassland of the Victorian volcanic plain - 2008
- 3.9 Littoral rainforest and coastal vine thickets of eastern Australia - 2009
- 3.10 Western ringtail possum in the southern Swan coastal plain, WA - 2009
- 3.11 Spiny rice-flower (Pimelea spinescens subsp. spinescens) - draft - 2009
- 3.12 Golden sun moth - draft - 2009
- 3.13 Black-throated finch (southern) (Poephila cincta cincta) - draft - 2009
- 3.14 Growling grass frog - draft - 2009
- 4.1 Use of environmental offsets under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 - draft - 2007
- 5.1 Magnetic Island, Queensland - draft - 2008
Reports
- Annual reports: Operation of the EPBC Act
- Section 516A reporting guidelines - 2003
- Criteria for determining ESD relevance - 2003
- Generic ESD and environmental performance indicators for Commonwealth organisations - 2003
- State of the environment reporting
- Wind farm collision risk for birds - 2006