Environmental economic accounts
13 Environmental economic accounts
Environmental economic accounts
The Head of Environment Information Australia:
must establish and maintain environmental economic accounts; and
may also choose to maintain environmental economic accounts established other than by the Head.
The Head must establish and maintain the accounts, as relevant, in accordance with the Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics.
The accounts must not contain protected information.
ABS assistance
The Head is to seek the assistance of the Australian Bureau of Statistics in establishing and maintaining the accounts.
Statements of environmental economic accounts
The Head must, at least once every 12 months, prepare and give to the Minister a statement of one or more of the accounts.
The Head may decide which account or accounts to prepare a statement of.
The statement:
must:
summarise the account or accounts; or
for an account previously summarised in a statement—summarise the changes made to the account since it was most recently summarised; and
may deal with any other matters the Head considers appropriate.
The statement must not contain protected information.
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