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UNE Compliance Register

This Register lists the compliance drivers (Commonwealth, NSW and international laws and other statutory instruments, and industry, community and ethical standards and codes) that impact on University activities and operations, to the extent that the University has some obligation of compliance or accountability.

The currently documented drivers are listed below in alpha-order by title.  Click on the title to access a detailed overview.  You can also search the register to find all of the compliance drivers and obligations relevant to your activities and the people who can help with your compliance responsibilities.

Note: the Register is being continually enhanced, with drivers and obligations added and amended as required.

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  • Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 (NSW) - Level 4The purpose of this Act is to maintain a healthy, productive and resilient environment for the greatest well-being of the community, now and into the future, consistent with the principles of ecologically sustainable development (described in section 6(2) of the Protection of the Environment Administration Act 1991). In particularâ€"
    (a) to conserve biodiversity at bioregional and State scales, and
    (b) to maintain the diversity and quality of ecosystems and enhance their capacity to adapt to change and provide for the needs of future generations, and
    (c) to improve, share and use knowledge, including local and traditional Aboriginal ecological knowledge, about biodiversity conservation, and
    (d) to support biodiversity conservation in the context of a changing climate, and
    (e) to support collating and sharing data, and monitoring and reporting on the status of biodiversity and the effectiveness of conservation actions, and
    (f) to assess the extinction risk of species and ecological communities, and identify key threatening processes, through an independent and rigorous scientific process, and
    (g) to regulate human interactions with wildlife by applying a risk-based approach, and
    (h) to support conservation and threat abatement action to slow the rate of biodiversity loss and conserve threatened species and ecological communities in nature, and
    (i) to support and guide prioritised and strategic investment in biodiversity conservation, and
    (j) to encourage and enable landholders to enter into voluntary agreements over land for the conservation of biodiversity, and
    (k) to establish a framework to avoid, minimise and offset the impacts of proposed development and land use change on biodiversity, and
    (l) to establish a scientific method for assessing the likely impacts on biodiversity values of proposed development and land use change, for calculating measures to offset those impacts and for assessing improvements in biodiversity values, and
    (m) to establish market-based conservation mechanisms through which the biodiversity impacts of development and land use change can be offset at landscape and site scales, and
    (n) to support public consultation and participation in biodiversity conservation and decision-making about biodiversity conservation, and
    (o) to make expert advice and knowledge available to assist the Minister in the administration of this Act.