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8.40 Principle 8—Adaptive management
Adaptive management should be applied in the planning, prioritisation and use of environmental water.
Note:  See section 1.07 for the meaning of adaptive management.

8.41 Principle 9—Relevant international agreements
Environmental watering should be undertaken in a way that is not inconsistent with relevant international agreements.
Note: A purpose of the Basin Plan, including Chapter 8, is to give effect to relevant international agreements (see paragraph 20(a) and subsections 21(1), (2) and (3) of the Act). This provision is a further check to ensure that this purpose is achieved.

8.42 Principle 10—Other management and operational practices
River management and operational practices should be reviewed, and if necessary altered, to ensure that rivers can be managed to achieve multiple objectives, including the objectives in Part 2.

8.43 Principle 11—Management of water for consumptive use
Management of water for consumptive use should, where possible, be undertaken in a way that is consistent with achieving the objectives in Part 2.

        Subdivision B—Reporting in relation to Basin annual environmental watering priorities

8.44 Reporting required where Basin annual environmental watering priorities not followed
(1) If a person undertakes environmental watering other than in accordance with the Basin annual environmental watering priorities, that person must give to the Authority a statement of reasons why environmental watering has not been undertaken in accordance with the Basin annual environmental watering priorities.
Note: See section 25D of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 for content required in a statement of reasons.
(2) The person must give the statement to the Authority as soon as practicable, but in any event within 4 months after the end of the water accounting period in which the environmental watering was undertaken.
Note: This aligns with the period by which an annual report must be produced on the implementation of the environmental management framework. See section 13.14 and item 10 of the table in Schedule 12.
(3) The Authority may publish on its website a statement of reasons given under subsection (1).

        Division 7—Planning for recovery of additional environmental water

8.45 Outline of Division
This section sets out the Authority's role in planning for the recovery of additional environmental water.

8.46 Planning for the recovery of additional environmental water
(1) The Authority may prepare, and publish on its website, recommendations about where in the Murray‑Darling Basin additional environmental water should be recovered (environmental water recovery recommendations).
(2) Without limiting subsection (1), environmental water recovery recommendations may include the following:
            (a) priority areas for the recovery of environmental water;
Note: See section 1.07 for the meaning of recovery of environmental water.
            (b) priorities for the recovery of certain types of water access rights;
            (c) the reasoning on which those priorities are based.
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