In accordance with the promotion of the use of the accredited authorisation procedure of the State or territory concerned, the removal procedure will not be available for measures already approved under a bilateral agreement or for measures that will be evaluated or evaluated under a bilaterally approved authorisation procedure. Currently, there is no bilateral authorization agreement. The final bilateral agreement will contain a list of processes that the Federal Minister of the Environment has accredited. These processes are called „accredited processes.“ Proposed measures under an accredited procedure do not require separate removal, assessment or approval from the Australian government. As part of the environmental agreement and accredited procedures, the Coordinator General makes the EIS evaluation report available to the Commonwealth Minister. Notice of intent for proposed bilateral agreement with Queensland on environmental approval (PDF – 69.38 KB) | (DOCX – 25.63 KB) The bilateral agreement applies to „controlled measures“ that require assessment in accordance with Part 8 of the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Act 1999 (EPBC Act) and which are subject to an eis assessment procedure when considering a bilateral project and the bilateral agreement is no longer applicable (for example). B when the action in question is removed from the bilateral measures group). or cancelled or suspended, the bill provides for a transition process. The bilateral agreement between the Commonwealth of Australia and the State of Queensland on environmental assessment (the bilateral assessment agreement) allows the Commonwealth Environment Minister to use certain procedures for assessing the environmental impact of the State of Queensland to assess the measures under EPBC. Transitional provisions for projects where the bilateral agreement authorizations no longer apply to them The draft bilateral agreement provides for the accreditation of the Queensland accreditation procedure for the approval of the proposed measures, which would otherwise be evaluated by the Australian government for approval under the EPBC Act. Only a decision on conditions of authorisation is made by Queensland, with Queensland taking into account issues and issues relating to the national environment. As part of the agreement with the State of Queensland and the NSW governments, the Commonwealth Minister is expected to have bilateral authorizations with the two states by mid-September 2014. If a controlled measure is required to assess the environmental impact, the assessment can be carried out as part of Queensland`s bilateral environmental assessment agreement with the Australian government.
