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76 Results of both internal and external regulators’ auditing are contained in milestone 31. Australian Forestry Standard (AFS) audit outcomes are available on request. Reporting Forests NSW continues to publicly report at a statewide level compliance and monitoring results in its SEEing report. The compliance summary lists infringements notices issued by external regulators. It also lists the compliance checks made by Forests NSW as part of the internal monitoring and auditing strategy and associated compliance, expressed as a percentage. Review As part of the implementation of Forests NSW EMS, all operational control documents are regularly reviewed and updated in accordance with the timeframes specified within the documents, or within the Document Control Procedures, which describe the process for reviewing documents (including internal Forest Practices Circulars) for consistency with current standards. For example, in mid-2005, Forests NSW completed its review of the Forest Practices Code 1 (Plantations Code 1995) Timber Harvesting in Forests NSW Plantations. Staff training and development DECC Reporting on the number of staff directly employed within the reporting area, categories of training and numbers trained in each category is not possible in detail for DECC in the 2007–2008 reporting year. Updated figures to June 2008 on employees by classification for DECC staff, the location of staff (Regional or Metropolitan) is provided in Appendix 6 (pages 193–194) of the DECC Annual Report 2007–08. Information on the DECC Learning and Development Framework, Aboriginal Cadetship Program, Fire Management Training and other staff training and development programs is provided in pages 115–118 (in Chapter 5: Skilled people and smart systems) of the DECC Annual Report 2007–08. Forests NSW Forests NSW has published information for staff training and development, as well as number of staff directly employed by Forests NSW in the Forests NSW SEEing Report 2007–2008. Social Environmental and Economic Report. Forests NSW, Pennant Hills NSW. However, reporting on the categories of training and numbers trained in each category for each of the Forest Agreement areas is not possible for Forests NSW, as reporting boundaries do not match Forest Agreement boundaries. NSW FOREST AGREEMENTS AND INTEGRATED FORESTRY OPERATIONS APPROVALS
Forestry regulation Information on native vegetation compliance and enforcement activities for the 2007–2008 reporting period is provided on page 65 (Chapter 4: Improve the condition of natural resources) of the DECC Annual Report 2007–08. Information on the compliance of Forests NSW with the Integrated Forestry Operations Approval (IFOA) Threatened Species and Environment Protection Licences for the 2007–2008 reporting period is contained within Chapter 3 of this report. Enforcement of laws, regulations and guidelines This indicator was reported on for all regions in 2004–2005 and 2006–2007 using data from the SoP qualitative assessment so as to align the two reporting processes. A SoP survey did not take place in 2007–2008 and no other data was collated for this indicator relevant to PWG lands. As a consequence, reporting on this indicator for DECC estate did not occur during the reporting period. Prosecutions and infringements The details of prosecutions completed under conservation legislation (for native vegetation, threatened species, parks, wildlife and Aboriginal heritage), the proportion that were successful and the resulting value of fines awarded in the 2007–2008 reporting period are provided on pages 64–65 (Chapter 4: Improve the condition of natural resources) of the DECC Annual Report 2007–08. Pages 200–202 (Appendix 8: Infringements and prosecutions) of the DECC Annual Report 2007–08 list infringements and prosecutions under parks, wildlife threatened species, Aboriginal heritage and native vegetation legislation completed during the 2007–2008 reporting period. Capacity to measure and monitor change MIG indicator 7.4 (narrative): Capacity to measure and monitor changes in the conservation and sustainable management of forests (UNE, LNE, Eden, Southern regions) Data and discussion The SoP program seeks to monitor and evaluate the condition of and pressures on NSW parks, and to ascertain how effectively these areas are being managed. The NSW SoP program is the largest and most comprehensive of its type in the world. The information is used to assist in operational planning within parks, as well as assisting a variety of reporting needs. SoP was implemented in early 2004 with the first public report released in 2005. Further review, refinement and system development has taken place since then. Subsequent assessments were made in 2005 and September 2007. Auditing of plantations under the PR Act by plantation officers does not aim to monitor changes in the conservation and sustainable management of forests — only auditing against the Plantations Code. Forests NSW uses a number of tools and systems to monitor conservation and sustainable management of forests. FRAMES is a statewide (except in the Eden Region) tool kit of applications developed by Forests NSW to calculate long-term, wood-supply volumes from areas of native forest NSW FOREST AGREEMENTS AND INTEGRATED FORESTRY OPERATIONS APPROVALS 77
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