whose regulation is appropriate and adapted to give effect to Australia's obligations under an agreement with one or more other countries, Victoria undertakes to ensure that the environmental impacts that the action has, will have, or is likely to have (other than the relevant impacts) are assessed to the greatest extent practicable. The parties that 'greatest extent practicable' in clause 6.1(a) is satisfied where the assessment has been undertaken in a specified manner of assessment as outlined in Schedule 1. Proponent Service Delivery Charter The parties agree to determine at the commencement of the assessment process key deliverables, milestones, and contact personnel for each party. To this end, the parties agree to establish, where appropriate, a Proponent Service Delivery Charter for each assessment project in the manner set out in the Administrative Arrangements. Single assessment In determining the assessment approach for a proposed action, Victoria will decide on an appropriate form of assessment equivalent to assessment via an inquiry, environmental impact statement, public environment report or preliminary documentation under the EPBC Act that will allow the Commonwealth Minister to have sufficient Information to make an informed decision whether or not to approve the proposed action and, if so, under what conditions. To ensure that a single Victorian assessment can be relied on by the Commonwealth Minister for a decision Part 9 of the EPBC Act, Victoria will ensure that the Assessment Report includes: a description of: the action; the places affected by the action; and any Matters of NES that are likely to be affected by the action; all relevant impacts on Matters of NES separately. This means that the nature and extent of likely impacts must be explicitly assessed for each Matter of NES, being, as relevant: the World Heritage values of a World Heritage property; the National Heritage values of a National Heritage place; the ecological character of a Ramsar wetland; listed threatened species (except a conservation dependent species) or their habitat, or any threatened ecological communities; the members of a listed migratory species or habitat; a water resource, in relation to coal seam gas or large coal mining developments;
Subject to the permission of the owner of the relevant Information and the confidentiality requirements of the party providing the Information, the parties agree to make available to each other any appropriate and relevant Information for the parties to meet their respective responsibilities relating to this Agreement. The parties that Information will remain the property of the owner and its use will be subject to such licence conditions as may be agreed. The parties agree that Information will not be used or communicated to any other person without the permission of the owner. Aligning assessment processes The parties recognise that there is opportunity to streamline assessment processes even where those assessment processes cannot be accredited. To this end, the parties agree that they will cooperate to align assessment processes as set out in the Administrative Arrangements. Guidance documents The parties commit to cooperate in the development, maintenance, review, and implementation of guidance documents relating to Matters of NES and the operation of this Agreement. For the purposes of this clause 9.5, guidance documents may include: referral / application guidelines in relation to significant impacts on Matters of NES; guidance documents for listed threatened species and ecological communities; and other guidelines, policies or plans relating to Matters of NES prepared by the Commonwealth under the EPBC Act that may relate to the operation of this Agreement. Review Five year reviews A review of the operation and effectiveness of this Agreement must be carried out at least once every five years while this Agreement remains in effect in accordance with section 65 of the EPBC Act. Each review of this Agreement this clause will be carried out jointly by the relevant administrative units of the Commonwealth and Victoria, at their own cost. Each review will include an evaluation of the operation and effectiveness of this Agreement against the objects of this Agreement. The Administrative Arrangements clause 9.1 will set out the process that the parties agree to follow in conducting each review. The Commonwealth Minister must publish the report of each review in accordance with the EPBC Regulations and give a copy of the report of each review to Victoria.