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Schedule 1 Summary of legislative and policy contexts
S1.1 The EPBC Act and EPBC Regulations
The objects of the EPBC Act (s.3) are:
 1. to provide for the protection of the environment, especially those aspects of the environment that are matters of national environmental significance;
 2. to promote ecologically sustainable development through the conservation and ecologically sustainable use of natural resources;
 3. to promote the conservation of biodiversity;
ca) to provide for the protection and conservation of heritage;
 1. to promote a co-operative approach to the protection and management of the environment involving governments, the community, landholders and Indigenous peoples;
 2. to assist in the co-operative implementation of Australia's international environmental responsibilities;
 3. to recognise the role of Indigenous people in the conservation and ecologically sustainable use of Australia's biodiversity; and
 4. to promote the use of Indigenous people's knowledge of biodiversity with the involvement of, and in cooperation with, the owners of the knowledge.
Director of National Parks
The Director of National Parks is a corporation under the EPBC Act (s.514A) and a Commonwealth corporate entity for the purposes of the Public Governance Performance and Accountability Act 2013. The corporation is controlled by the person appointed by the Governor-General to the office that is called the Director of National Parks (s.514F of the EPBC Act).
The functions of the Director (s.514B) include the administration, management and control of Commonwealth reserves, including Australian Marine Parks, established under the EPBC Act. The Director generally has power to do all things necessary or convenient for performing the Director's functions (s.514C). The Director has a number of specified powers under the EPBC Act and EPBC Regulations, including to prohibit or control some activities, and to issue permits for activities that are otherwise prohibited. The Director performs functions and exercises powers in accordance with this plan.
Establishment of Commonwealth reserves
Commonwealth reserves, including Australian Marine Parks, are declared by proclamation by the Governor-General under the EPBC Act. The EPBC Act and the EPBC Regulations provide the legal basis and framework for management of Commonwealth reserves.
Commonwealth reserves can be declared over areas specified in s.344 of the EPBC Act, including the Commonwealth marine area as defined in s.24 of the Act (which extends generally from the three nautical mile limit of the coastal waters of the states and territories to the outer limit of Australia's exclusive economic zone). The Commonwealth marine area is also a matter of national environmental significance protected from significant impacts to the environment by Part 3 of the EPBC Act.
IUCN categories and management principles
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature