{"id":"F2025L00008","name":"Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (2025 Conservation Theme for Prioritising Nominations of Threatened Species, Threatened Ecological Communities and Key Threatening Processes) Determination 2024","slug":"environment-protection-and-biodiversity-conservation-2025-conservation-theme-for-prioritising-nomina","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":105787,"registerId":"commonwealth-F2025L00008-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-03","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (2025 Conservation Theme for Prioritising Nominations of Threatened Species, Threatened Ecological Communities and Key Threatening Processes) Determination 2024","content":"---\nmeta-content-style-type: text/css\nmeta-content-type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8\ntitle: Attach D - Legislative Instrument - 517 determination - template\n---\n\n?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\" standalone=\"no\"?>\n\n![Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia](image.001.jpeg)\n\n \n\nEnvironment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (2025 Conservation Theme for Prioritising Nominations of Threatened Species, Threatened Ecological Communities and Key Threatening Processes) Determination 2024\n\nI, Tanya Plibersek, Minister for the Environment and Water, make the following instrument.\n\nDated 13-12-24 \n\nTanya Plibersek  \n\nTanya Plibersek\n\nMinister for the Environment and Water\n\n \n\n1  Name\n\n  This instrument is the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (2025 Conservation Theme for Prioritising Nominations of Threatened Species, Threatened Ecological Communities and Key Threatening Processes) Determination 2024.\n\n2  Commencement\n\n  This instrument commences on the day after it is registered.\n\n3  Authority\n\n  This instrument is made under section 194D of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.\n\n4  Determination\n\n  ‘Nominations that support the protection and recovery of species and ecological communities at risk from invasive species, disease and pathogens’ is a conservation theme that should be given priority in relation to the assessment period commencing 1 October 2025.\n\n \n\n \n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The instrument performs exactly the narrow function authorised by section 194D of the EPBC Act: setting an annual conservation theme to guide prioritisation of nominations. It has not expanded beyond this specific purpose."},"complexity_factors":["Single operative provision (section 4) containing one sentence","No defined terms section","No cross-references to other legislation beyond the enabling provision (section 194D of the EPBC Act)","No conditional logic, exceptions, or procedural requirements","Total length: 4 short sections spanning less than one page","Straightforward administrative determination with no substantive legal obligations created"],"plain_english_summary":"The instrument sets the 2025 conservation theme: prioritise nominations that protect and recover species and ecosystems threatened by invasive species, diseases, and pathogens. It guides nominators and the Threatened Species Scientific Committee on which cases get priority.\n\nStarting 1 October 2025, it directs limited conservation resources toward urgent biosecurity threats (feral animals, weeds, fungal diseases) driving extinctions."},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The instrument does not change the substantive scope, criteria or legal protections under the EPBC Act. It only sets a priority theme for how nominations are queued for assessment in the period commencing 1 October 2025 (section 4), relying on the authority in section 194D (section 3)."},"complexity_factors":["Narrow, single-purpose change: declares one prioritisation theme for a single assessment period (section 4).","Procedural effect only: does not amend listing criteria or legal status of species/communities—it changes assessment ordering (section 4).","Statutory hook: instrument is made under s194D of the EPBC Act, so legal effect depends on that provision (section 3).","Commencement timing: takes effect the day after registration, creating an immediate scheduling implication (section 2).","Administrative discretion: the instrument directs priority but does not prescribe how agencies allocate resources or run assessments, leaving operational choices to decision-makers.","Low compliance burden for nominators, but creates incentives to time or reframe nominations to fit the theme to gain faster assessment."],"plain_english_summary":"This instrument sets the 2025 conservation theme for EPBC Act nomination priorities: nominations that support protection and recovery of species and ecological communities at risk from invasive species, disease and pathogens will be given priority for assessment from 1 October 2025. It affects people and organisations who nominate species, ecological communities or key threatening processes and the agency that schedules assessments, because it changes the order and timing in which nominations receive assessment resources and attention."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/environment-protection-and-biodiversity-conservation-2025-conservation-theme-for-prioritising-nomina","history":"/api/acts/environment-protection-and-biodiversity-conservation-2025-conservation-theme-for-prioritising-nomina/history","analysis":"/api/acts/environment-protection-and-biodiversity-conservation-2025-conservation-theme-for-prioritising-nomina/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/environment-protection-and-biodiversity-conservation-2025-conservation-theme-for-prioritising-nomina/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/environment-protection-and-biodiversity-conservation-2025-conservation-theme-for-prioritising-nomina/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/environment-protection-and-biodiversity-conservation-2025-conservation-theme-for-prioritising-nomina/documents"}}