Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

The Minister must obtain and consider the advice of the Scientific Committee on:

the content of recovery and threat abatement plans; and

the times within which, and the order in which, such plans should be made.

In giving advice about a recovery plan for the whole or part of a species or ecological community, the Scientific Committee must take into account the following matters:

the degree of threat to the survival in nature of the species or ecological community, or part, in question;

the potential for the species or community, or part, to recover;

the genetic distinctiveness of the species or community, or part;

the importance of the species or community, or part, to the ecosystem;

the value to humanity of the species or community, or part;

the efficient and effective use of the resources allocated to the conservation of species and ecological communities.

In giving advice about a threat abatement plan for the whole, or one or more parts, of a key threatening process, the Scientific Committee must take into account the following matters:

the degree of threat posed by the process or the relevant parts of the process, as the case may be, to the survival in nature of species and ecological communities;

the potential of species and ecological communities so threatened to recover;

the efficient and effective use of the resources allocated to the conservation of species and ecological communities.