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Bills of the current Parliament

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Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Making Marine Parks Accountable) Bill 2012

Type	Private
Originating house	Senate
Status	Before Senate

Summary

Amends the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 to: require the minister, before the Governor-General declares an area of sea or an area of land and sea as a Commonwealth reserve, to establish an independent scientific reference panel, a stakeholder advisory group and to commission an independent assessment of social and economic impacts of any proposal, including any relevant compensation costing; require the minister to publish the reports of the scientific reference panel and the stakeholder advisory group; and provide that a Commonwealth reserve declaration be subject to disallowance.

Progress of bill

For committee reference information, please see the Notes section at the end of this page.

Senate
Introduced and read a first time	13/09/12
Second reading moved	13/09/12
Second reading debate	11/10/12
Second reading debate	01/11/12
Second reading debate	07/02/13