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state or territory government. For this plan, this included a call for community members to prepare written submissions on a range of issues including climate change, management, curation of the living collection, visitor experiences, environmentally sustainable management and the role of science.

Introductory provisions

Name
This instrument is the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (Australian National Botanic Gardens Management Plan) Instrument 2022.

Commencement
This instrument commences on 20 May 2022.
Note: This instrument will cease to have effect 10 years after it took effect (unless it has already been revoked): see section 373 of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.

Authority
This instrument is made by the Minister under subsection 371(1) of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 on the day it is approved under subparagraph 370(3)(b)(i) of that Act.

Repeal
The Australian National Botanic Gardens management plan approved by the Minister on 21 May 2012 is repealed.

Interpretation (including acronyms)
In this management plan:
Access to biological resources means sampling biological resources of native species for research and development of any genetic resources, or biochemical compounds, comprising or contained in the biological resources.
Australian National Botanic Gardens or ANBG means the area declared as a reserve by that name under the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act 1975 and continued under the EPBC Act pursuant to the Environmental Reform (Consequential Provisions) Act 1999. It also means the scientific and educational institution associated with the reserve and its living and herbarium collections.
Australian National Herbarium or ANH means the herbarium of that name operated jointly by the ANBG and CSIRO through the Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research.
Australian Network for Plant Conservation means the organisation of that name whose mission is to promote and develop plant conservation in Australia.
Australian Plant Image Index or APII means the national collection of images and illustrations of Australian flora managed by the ANBG.
Biological diversity or biodiversity means the variability among living organisms from all sources, including terrestrial, marine and other aquatic ecosystems and the ecological complexes of which they are part. It includes diversity within species and between species, and diversity of ecosystems.
Biological material means, but is not limited to, plants, plant parts or propagation material (such as seeds, spores, cuttings, roots, bulbs, corms or leaves, also known as germplasm), biological resources, fungi or other fungal material, and any other material of plant, animal, fungal, microbial or other origin and the genetic resources contained therein.
Biological resources means genetic resources, organisms, parts of organisms, populations and any other biotic component of an ecosystem with actual or potential use or value for humanity.
Born-digital image means an image that originates in a digital form, in contrast to