Regional Forest Agreements Act 2002

RFA wood means processed or unprocessed wood (including woodchips) sourced from an RFA forestry operation undertaken by a person if the undertaking of the RFA forestry operation is not prohibited by a provision of Part 3 of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 because:

an approval of the undertaking of the RFA forestry operation by the person is in operation under Part 9 of that Act for the purposes of the provision; or

Part 4 of that Act lets the person undertake the RFA forestry operation without an approval under Part 9 for the purposes of the provision; or

both:

there is in force a decision of the Minister under Division 2 of Part 7 of that Act that the action is not a controlled action; and

if the decision was made because the Minister believed that the action would be taken in a manner specified in the notice of the decision given under section 77 of that Act—the action is taken in this manner.

However, RFA wood does not include wood sourced from a plantation in a State unless:

a code of practice for that State has been approved under rules made under section 432 of the Export Control Act 2020; and

that approval has not been revoked under those rules.