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Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 - Listing of CITES Species - Declaration of stricter domestic measure (25/01/2007)

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Declarations/Other as made
This Declaration provides that the list of CITES species for the purposes of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 has effect as if it were modified as set out in the declaration.
Administered by: Environment and Energy
General Comments: This Declaration takes effect on the commencement of Items 423, 434, 439 and 441 of the Environment and Heritage Legislation Amendment Act (No. 1) 2006.
Registered 14 Feb 2007
Tabling HistoryDate
Tabled HR26-Feb-2007
Tabled Senate26-Feb-2007
Date of repeal 01 Apr 2017
Repealed by Sunsetting

 

 

 

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

 

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

 

Listing of CITES Species

Declaration of stricter domestic measure

 

 

 

I, Ian Gordon Campbell, Australian Minister for the Environment and Heritage, pursuant to subsection 303CB(1) of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act), hereby declare that the list of CITES[1] species established under subsection 303CA(1) of the EPBC Act, has effect as if all species of the order Cetacea (all whales, porpoises and dolphins) included in Appendix II of CITES are included in Appendix I of CITES.

 

The amendment will take effect on the date that Items 423, 434, 439 and 441 of the Environment and Heritage Legislation Amendment Act (No. 1) 2006 commences.

 

 

Dated this         25th     day of   January  2007

 

 

 

 

 

Ian Gordon Campbell

 

Minister for the Environment and Heritage

 

 

 

 

 

 


[1] The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora made at Washington on 3 March 1973, as amended and in force for Australia from time-to-time.