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 - 2006
- 1.2 Significant impact guidelines - actions on, or impacting upon, Commonwealth land and actions by commonwealth agencies - 2006
2. Industry
Industry guidelines provide specific guidance for industry sectors and should be read in conjunction with the significant impact guidelines.
- 2.1 Offshore seismic operations - 2008
- 2.2 Offshore aquaculture - 2006
- 2.3 Wind farm industry - 2009
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.
- 3.2 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
- 3.15 Endangered southern cassowary (Casuarius casuarius johnsonii) Wet Tropics Population - draft - July 2009
- 3.16 Alpine sphagnum bogs and associated fens - September 2009 (order printed copy)
- 3.17 Weeping Myall Woodlands - September 2009
- 3.18 Lowland native grasslands of Tasmania - October 2009 (order printed copy)
- 3.20 Significant impact guidelines for the vulnerable water mouse Xeromys myoides - draft - 2009
- 3.21 Significant impact guidelines for 36 migratory shorebird species - draft - November 2009
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 Use of environmental offsets under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 - draft - 2007
5. Regions
Policy Statements for regions provide area focused guidance for matters of national environmental significance and should be read in conjunction with the significant impact guidelines - maters of national environmental significance.
- 5.1 Magnetic Island, Queensland - draft - 2008
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