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the Director by the Cocos (Keeling) Islands community for North Keeling Island and its surrounding waters).
Committee meetings will be held at least twice per calendar year, and Parks Australia will provide the committee with documents and reports on the implementation of management programs and other material as appropriate to ensure the committee has the information necessary to fulfil its functions.

      4.0 Management of activities
Image: Burung cuit-cuit (white tern) (Siddiq Juljali)

  4.1           Zone categories, names and objectives
Zoning and related prescriptions for managing activities are important tools for managing marine parks to ensure protection of marine habitats and species, while supporting the continuation of important activities in the marine environment. In determining the zones and prescriptions, the Director has considered the best available science, the views and aspirations of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands community, advice from stakeholders, comments from the general public, the goals and principles of the National Representative System of Marine Protected Areas and the IUCN reserve management principles.
The EPBC Act requires this plan to assign an IUCN category to the marine park. The EPBC Act also allows this plan to divide a marine park into zones and to assign a category to each zone. The category for each zone may differ from the overall category of the marine park.
This section assigns an IUCN category to Cocos (Keeling) Islands Marine Park and sets out the objectives for each zone. The zoning of Cocos (Keeling) Islands Marine Park that is assigned under this plan is the same as the zoning that was assigned at the time the park was proclaimed in 2022. The maps in Chapter 2 show the zones assigned to Cocos (Keeling) Islands Marine Park.

Prescriptions
 1.          Cocos (Keeling) Islands Marine Park is assigned overall to the IUCN category II and the following zones:
 1.       National Park Zones (IUCN II), as shown in Section 2.1, Figure 2.1; and
 2.       Habitat Protection Zone (Cocos (Keeling) Islands) (IUCN IV), as shown in Section 2.1, Figure 2.2.
     1.          The objective of the National Park Zones (IUCN II) is to provide for the protection and conservation of ecosystems, habitats and native species in as natural a state as possible.
     2.          The objectives of the Habitat Protection Zone (Cocos (Keeling) Islands) (IUCN IV) are to:
 1.       provide for the conservation of ecosystems, habitats and native species, while allowing activities that do not harm seafloor habitats;
 2.       support cultural, social and economic activity in the marine park that aligns with the views and aspirations of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands community.

  4.2           Outline of activity management
This plan enables a range of activities to be carried out that would otherwise be prohibited or controlled by the EPBC Act and EPBC Regulations.