Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Great Barrier Reef) Bill 2013
Submission Date: 15 April 2013
The Law Council supports the amendments proposed by the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Great Barrier Reef) Bill 2013.
The Law Council believes that the amendments are an appropriate and proportionate response to the concerns the World Heritage Committee expressed in 2011 about the conservation of the outstanding universal values of the Great Barrier Reef Marine World Heritage Area.1 The amendments are also an appropriate and proportionate response to the recommendations made by the UNESCO World Heritage Centre and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature in their 2012 reactive monitoring mission report.2
1 UNESCO, World Heritage Committee, ‘Decision 35 COM 7B.10’, Decisions Adopted by the World Heritage Committee at its 35th Session (UNESCO, 2011), UN Doc WHC-11/35.COM/20, Paris, 7 July 2011 https://whc.unesco.org/en/decisions/4418, 55–56.
2 UNESCO World Heritage Centre – IUCN, Mission Report: Reactive Monitoring Mission to Great Barrier Reef (Australia) 6th to 14th March 2012 (Fanny Douvere UNESCO World Heritage Centre and Tim Badman IUCN), https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/154/documents/.
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