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outcomes of any review of the environmental watering plan.
Note:  See section 13.09.

        Part 4—Environmental management framework

        Division 1—Preliminary

8.10 Outline of this Part
This Part sets out the environmental management framework, which includes:
            (a) processes to co‑ordinate the planning, prioritisation and use of planned environmental water and held environmental water, under which:
                (i) the Authority is obliged to prepare a Basin‑wide environmental watering strategy (Division 2); and
                (ii) each Basin State is obliged to prepare long‑term watering plans for water resource plan areas (Division 3); and
                (iii) each Basin State is obliged to identify annual environmental watering priorities for water resource plan areas (Division 4); and
                (iv) the Authority is obliged to identify Basin annual environmental watering priorities (Division 5); and
            (b) the principles to be applied in environmental watering (Division 6); and
            (c) a mechanism to enable the Authority to co‑ordinate the recovery of additional environmental water (Division 7).

8.11 Objectives of environmental management framework
The environmental management framework is intended to:
            (a) co‑ordinate the planning, prioritisation and use of environmental water on both a long‑term and an annual basis; and
            (b) enable adaptive management to be applied to the planning, prioritisation and use of environmental water; and
            (c) facilitate consultation, co‑ordination and co‑operative arrangements between the Authority, the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder and Basin States;
in order to achieve the objectives in Part 2.
Note: The application of adaptive management will enable various triggers to be responded to, including any adjustment that might be made to the SDL.

8.12 Interpretation
In this Part:
updated: a plan is taken to have been updated if it is reviewed and re‑made, whether or not the plan was amended as a result of the review.

        Division 2—Basin‑wide environmental watering strategy

8.13 Obligation to prepare Basin‑wide environmental watering strategy
(1) The Authority must prepare a Basin‑wide environmental watering strategy for the Murray‑Darling Basin (Basin‑wide environmental watering strategy).
(2) The purpose of the Basin‑wide environmental watering strategy is to:
            (a) explain the context within which the Basin annual environmental watering priorities will be set; and
            (b) identify particular Basin‑wide environmental watering priorities over the long term; and
            (c) help co‑ordinate the management of environmental water, including guiding the development of consistent long‑term watering plans.

8.14 Content of the Basin‑wide environmental watering strategy
(1) The Basin‑wide environmental watering strategy must include an explanation as to how the Authority will identify the Basin annual environmental watering priorities (Division 5).
(2) The Basin‑wide environmental watering strategy may also do any or all of the following:
            (a) identify:
                (i) particular priority environmental assets or priority ecosystem functions, and their environmental watering requirements, using the methods in Part 5; or
                     Note: See also subsection 8.15(2).
                (ii) multi‑site watering