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Amendment of List of Exempt Native Specimens - High Seas Fishery (23/09/2010) (inclusion)

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COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
 
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
 
Amendment of List of Exempt Native Specimens
 
I, NIGEL ROUTH, Assistant Secretary, Marine Biodiversity Policy Branch, as Delegate of the Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities pursuant to subsection 303DC(1) of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act), hereby amend the list of exempt native specimens established under section 303DB of the EPBC Act by including in the list the following:
 
·        Specimens that are or are derived from fish or invertebrates, other than specimens that belong to species listed under Part 13 of the EPBC Act, taken lawfully by vessels operating in waters outside the outer limits of the exclusive economic zone of all countries (High Seas) including Australia and its external territories not already covered under existing Australian fisheries management regimes.
 
with a notation that inclusion of the specimens in the list is subject to the following restrictions or conditions:
 
The specimen, or the fish or invertebrate from which it is derived, was taken lawfully under a fishing concession issued by the Australian Fisheries Management Authority and legally imported into Australia; and
 
·        the specimens are included in the list until 17 December 2010.
 
 
Dated this 23rd day of   September 2010
 
 
 
 
………………………Nigel Routh.. …………………
Delegate of the Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities