Progress Report 2007-2008 - Department of Environment and ...
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2001<br />
108<br />
Due date Region FA section Milestone <strong>Progress</strong><br />
Code<br />
started 14<br />
December<br />
Sthn<br />
Att. 6(3)<br />
point 5<br />
Ongoing Sthn 2.2.3<br />
Ongoing Sthn<br />
Att. 6(3)<br />
point 4<br />
Ongoing Sthn Att. 6(3)<br />
Ongoing Sthn<br />
Att. 6(3)<br />
point 1<br />
Ongoing Sthn Att. 6(4)<br />
NSW will ensure that an integrated code <strong>of</strong> practice is<br />
developed for plantation activities across all tenures<br />
under the Plantations <strong>and</strong> Reafforestation Act 1999.<br />
Existing plantations can also continue to obtain<br />
certainty for the purposes <strong>of</strong> harvesting as per the<br />
Timber Plantations (Harvest Guarantee) Act 1995 <strong>and</strong><br />
similar provisions included in the Plantations <strong>and</strong><br />
Reafforestation Act.<br />
For activities regulated under the Plantations <strong>and</strong><br />
Reafforestation Act 1999, plans must be prepared as<br />
required in the Plantations <strong>and</strong> Reafforestation (Code)<br />
Regulation 2001.<br />
With appropriate public involvement, <strong>and</strong> consistent<br />
with the Native Vegetation Conservation Act 1997, the<br />
regional vegetation management committees will<br />
pursue planning policies that provide for appropriate<br />
long-term, secure, management provisions for private<br />
native forests, including harvesting for commercial<br />
wood production.<br />
Improve administrative arrangements <strong>and</strong> cooperation<br />
<strong>and</strong> coordination by State agencies to facilitate the<br />
timber industry using private forest resources.<br />
Arrangements to ensure ESFM on private forests,<br />
involving the provision <strong>of</strong> technical advice, extension<br />
services, research <strong>and</strong> assistance in the estimation <strong>of</strong><br />
sustainable yield.<br />
Undertake a private forest inventory <strong>of</strong> southern NSW<br />
to determine the basis <strong>of</strong> yield <strong>of</strong> wood products from<br />
private l<strong>and</strong> is required, with the agreement <strong>of</strong> forest<br />
owner groups.<br />
Implemented<br />
This milestone was achieved with the implementation <strong>of</strong> the Plantations <strong>and</strong> Reafforestation (Code) Regulation 2001 in December<br />
2001. The Plantations <strong>and</strong> Reafforestation Act 1999 <strong>and</strong> the code provide certainty for harvesting, which was previously provided<br />
under the Timber Plantations (Harvest Guarantee) Act 1995. Plantations certified under the Timber Plantations (Harvest Guarantee)<br />
Act are deemed to be authorised under the Plantations <strong>and</strong> Reafforestation Act.<br />
A statutory review <strong>of</strong> the Act <strong>and</strong> code began in January 2005. As required, a <strong>Report</strong> to Parliament on the outcomes <strong>of</strong> the review was<br />
filed in December 2005. During 2006 <strong>and</strong> <strong>2007</strong>, inter-agency working groups developed amendments to the Act <strong>and</strong> code based on<br />
the recommendations in the report. An Industry Reference Group was consulted on the proposed amendments.<br />
It is intended to place the proposed amendments on public exhibition, providing an opportunity for comment by the broader<br />
community.<br />
An amendment Bill will then be introduced into Parliament.<br />
Implemented<br />
The Plantations <strong>and</strong> Reafforestation (Code) Regulation 2001 requires applicants for plantation authorisation to submit a plantation<br />
plan as part <strong>of</strong> their applications. Refer to clause 14 <strong>of</strong> the code. Operational plans are also required for specified plantation<br />
operations, i.e. site preparation involving ripping <strong>and</strong> ploughing, construction crossing rivers, <strong>and</strong> harvesting exceeding a certain<br />
volume. Refer to clauses 26 <strong>and</strong> 27 <strong>of</strong> the code. The requirements for plantation plans <strong>and</strong> operational plans will not be affected by<br />
review <strong>of</strong> the Act <strong>and</strong> code, although it is proposed that some additional items will be required to be shown on plantation plans.<br />
Continuing<br />
The Native Vegetation Act 2003 establishes a different regime that does not include regional vegetation management committees.<br />
CMAs have subsumed their role.<br />
Continuing<br />
No further progress to report.<br />
Continuing<br />
No further progress to report.<br />
Continuing<br />
No further progress to report.<br />
NSW FOREST AGREEMENTS AND INTEGRATED FORESTRY OPERATIONS APPROVALS