Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2016L00002:schedule:8:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2016L00002
Segment Type: schedule
Provision Reference: sch 8 (pt 1/52)
Character Range: 534298–539613

Schedule 8 – Australian IUCN reserve management principles
Part 1 – General administrative principles
1 Community participation                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                4.1, 9.7
Management arrangements should, to the extent practicable, provide for broad and meaningful participation by the community, public organisations and private interests in designing and carrying out the functions of the reserve or zone.
2 Effective and adaptive management                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 7, 9.5, 9.9
Management arrangements should be effective and appropriate to the biodiversity objectives and the socio-economic context of the reserve or zone. They should be adaptive in character to ensure a capacity to respond to uncertainty and change.
3 Precautionary principle                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                5.2, 5.3, 9.5
A lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a reason for postponing measures to prevent degradation of the natural and cultural heritage of a reserve or zone where there is a threat of serious or irreversible damage.
4 Minimum impact                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         5.2, 5.3, 6, 9.2
The integrity of a reserve or zone is best conserved by protecting it from disturbance and threatening processes. Potential adverse impacts on the natural, cultural and social environment and surrounding communities should be minimised as far as practicable.
5 Ecologically sustainable use                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           10.5, 10.6
If resource use is consistent with the management principles that apply to a reserve or zone, it should (if it is carried out) be based on the principle (the principle of ecologically sustainable use) that:

   a)         natural resources should only be used within their capacity to sustain natural processes while maintaining the life-support systems of nature; and
   b)         the benefit of the use to the present generation should not diminish the potential of the reserve or zone to meet the needs and aspirations of future generations.
6 Transparency of decision-making                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        4.1, 6
The framework and processes for decision-making for management of the reserve or zone should be transparent. The reasons for making decisions should be publicly available, except to the extent that information, including information that is culturally sensitive or commercial-in-confidence, needs to be treated as confidential.
7 Joint management                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
If the reserve or zone of wholly or partly owned, by Aboriginal people, continuing traditional use of the reserve or zone by resident Indigenous people, including the protection and maintenance of cultural heritage, should be recognised.

Part 2 – Principles for each IUCN category
3 National park (category II)
    3.01       The reserve or zone should be protected and managed to preserve its natural condition according to the following principles.
    3.02       Natural and scenic areas of national and international significance should be protected for spiritual, scientific, educational, recreational or tourist purposes.                                                                                                                                                                                            5.2, 6, 7, 9.2, 9.5
    3.03       Representative examples of physiographic regions, biotic communities, genetic resources, and native