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                                       * could cause a listed threatened species or a listed threatened ecological community to become eligible to be listed in another category representing a higher degree of endangerment

                                       * adversely affects two or more listed threatened species (other than conservation dependent species) or two or more listed threatened ecological communities.
Threatened ecological community  An ecological community listed under the EPBC Act as being critically endangered, endangered or vulnerable.
Threatened species               A species listed under the EPBC Act as being critically endangered, endangered, vulnerable or conservation dependent.
Near-threatened species          A species currently not listed as threatened under the EPBC Act, but being impacted by threats in such a way that they could become eligible for listing as threatened in the near future. Note this is a purely descriptive term used for purposes of this document and is not a legal term or category used in the EPBC Act.

Appendix A: Commonwealth legislation relevant to threat abatement plans
The following extracts from the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) and the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Regulations 2000, which are relevant to the making of threat abatement plans, are provided for information only, and are not legal documents.

Content of threat abatement plans—Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

Section 271 Content of threat abatement plans
    (1) A threat abatement plan must provide for the research, management and other actions necessary to reduce the key threatening process concerned to an acceptable level in order to maximise the chances of the long-term survival in nature of native species and ecological communities affected by the process.
    (2) In particular, a threat abatement plan must:
       (a) state the objectives to be achieved; and
       (b) state criteria against which achievement of the objectives is to be measured; and
       (c) specify the actions needed to achieve the objectives; and
       (g) meet prescribed criteria (if any) and contain provisions of a prescribed kind (if any).
    (3) In making a threat abatement plan, regard must be had to:
       (a) the objects of this Act; and
       (b) the most efficient and effective use of the resources that are allocated for the conservation of species and ecological communities; and
       (c) minimising any significant adverse social and economic impacts consistently with the principles of ecologically sustainable development; and
       (d) meeting Australia's obligations under international agreements between Australia and one or more countries relevant to the species or ecological community threatened by the key threatening process that is the subject of the plan; and
       (e) the role and interests of Indigenous people in the conservation of Australia's biodiversity.
    (4) A threat abatement plan may:
       (a) state the estimated duration and cost of the threat abatement process; and
       (b) identify