Environmental Protection Regulation 2019

The administering authority must, for making an environmental management decision relating to an environmentally relevant activity, other than a prescribed ERA—

carry out an environmental objective assessment against the environmental objective and performance outcomes mentioned in schedule 8, part 3, divisions 1 and 2; and

consider the environmental values declared under this regulation; and

if the activity is to be carried out in a strategic environmental area—consider the impacts of the activity on the environmental attributes for the area under the Regional Planning Interests Act 2014; and

consider each of the following under any relevant environmental protection policies—

the management hierarchy;

environmental values;

quality objectives;

the management intent; and

if a bilateral agreement requires the matters of national environmental significance to be considered—consider those matters.

However, the administering agency is not required to consider the matters mentioned in subsection (1)(e) if the Coordinator-General, under the State Development Act, section 54Y, issues an environmental approval for the undertaking of all or part of a coordinated project to which the activity relates.

For an environmental management decision relating to a prescribed ERA, other than the prescribed ERA mentioned in schedule 2, section 13A, the administering authority making the decision must—

carry out an environmental objective assessment against the environmental objective and performance outcomes mentioned in schedule 8, part 3, division 1; and

consider the matters mentioned in subsection (1)(b), (c) and (d).

For an environmental management decision relating to the prescribed ERA mentioned in schedule 2, section 13A, the administering authority making the decision must—

carry out an environmental objective assessment against the environmental objectives for water and groundwater mentioned in schedule 8, part 3, division 1, to the extent the performance outcomes for the environmental objectives relate to fine sediment, or dissolved inorganic nitrogen, entering the water of the Great Barrier Reef or Great Barrier Reef catchment waters; and

consider each environmental value, declared under this regulation, to the extent the value relates to fine sediment, or dissolved inorganic nitrogen, entering the water of the Great Barrier Reef or Great Barrier Reef catchment waters; and

if the activity is to be carried out in a strategic environmental area—consider the impacts of the activity on each environmental attribute for the area under the Regional Planning Interests Act 2014, to the extent the attribute relates to fine sediment, or dissolved inorganic nitrogen, entering the water of the Great Barrier Reef or Great Barrier Reef catchment waters; and

consider each of the following matters under a relevant environmental protection policy, to the extent the matter relates to fine sediment, or dissolved inorganic nitrogen, entering the water of the Great Barrier Reef or Great Barrier Reef catchment waters—

the management hierarchy;

environmental values;

quality objectives;

the management intent.