{"id":"F2007B00410","name":"Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 - section 269A - Adoption of State Plans as Recovery Plans (26/03/2002)","slug":"f2007b00410","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":325158,"registerId":"commonwealth-F2007B00410-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-08","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"Environment Protection and Biodiversity ","sectionType":"part","heading":"Environment Protection and Biodiversity Act 1999","content":"# Environment Protection and Biodiversity Act 1999\n\nDepartment of the Environment and Heritage\n\nI, DAVID ALISTAIR KEMP, Minister for the Environment and Heritage, in pursuance of s269A of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, hereby declare that the following Recovery Plans (22):\n\nNew South Wales (8)\n\nNSW National Parks and Wildlife Service. 2001. Epacris hamiltonii Recovery Plan. NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service, Hurstville, NSW.\n\nNSW National Parks and Wildlife Service. 2001. Blue Mountains Water Skink (Eulamprus leuarensis) Recovery Plan. NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service, Hurstville, NSW.\n\nNSW National Parks and Wildlife Service. 2001. Approved Recovery Plan for Tumut Grevillea (Grevillea wilkinsonii) NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service, Hurstville, NSW.\n\nNSW National Parks and Wildlife Service. 2001. Bathurst Copper Butterfly (Paralucia spinifera) Recovery Plan. NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service, Hurstville, NSW.\n\nNSW National Parks and Wildlife Service. 2001. Leionema lachnauides Recovery Plan. NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service, Hurstville, NSW.\n\nNSW National Parks and Wildlife Service. 2001. Botany Bay Bearded Greenhood Recovery Plan. NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service, Hurstville, NSW.\n\nNSW National Parks and Wildlife Service. 2001. Approved Recovery Plan for the Threatened Alpine flora Anemone Buttercup (Ranunculus anemoneus), Feldmark Grass (Erythranthera pumila), Raleigh Sedge (Carex raleighii) & Shining Cudweed (Euchiton nitidulus). NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service, Hurstville, NSW.\n\nNSW National Parks and Wildlife Service. 2001. Approved Recovery Plan for the Araluen Zieria (Zieria adenophora). NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service, Hurstville, NSW.","sortOrder":0},{"sectionNumber":"Northern Territory (1)","sectionType":"division","heading":"Northern Territory (1)","content":"### Northern Territory (1)\n\nMcAlpin, S.2001. A Recovery Plan for the Great Desert Skink (Egernia kintorei) 2001-2011. Arid Lands Environment Centre, Alice Springs.\n\nQueensland (1)\n\nAustomyrtus gonoclada Recovery Team 2001. Recovery Plan for the angle-stemmed myrtle Austomyrtus gonoclada 2001-2005. Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service, Brisbane.\n\nTasmania (1)\n\nSwift Parrot Recovery Team, 2000. Swift Parrot Recovery Plan 2001-2005. Department of Primary Industries, Water & Environment, Tasmania.\n\n  \nWestern Australia (11)\n\nPhillimore, R. and Brown, A. 2000. Phalanx Grevillea (Grevillea dryandroides subsp. dryandroides) Interim Recovery Plan 2000-2003. Department of Conservation and Land Management, Wanneroo, WA.\n\nPhillimore, R. and Brown, A. 2000. Narrow Curved-leaf Grevillea (Grevillea curviloba subsp. incurva) Interim Recovery Plan 2000-2003. Department of Conservation and Land Management, Wanneroo, WA.\n\nEnglish, V. and Phillimore, R. 2000. Curved-leaf Grevillea (Grevillea curviloba subsp. curviloba) Interim Recovery Plan 2000-2003. Department of Conservation and Land Management, Wanneroo, WA.\n\nPhillimore, R. and Brown, A. 2000. Wongan Cactus (Daviesia euphorbioides) Interim Recovery Plan, 2000-2003. Department of Conservation and Land Management, Wanneroo, WA.\n\nMorris, K. Speldewinde, P. and Orell,P. 2000. Djoongari (Shark Bay Mouse), Pseudomys fieldi, Recovery Plan 1992-2001. Department of Conservation and Land Management, Wanneroo, WA.\n\nEnglish, V. et al. 2000. Aquatic Root Mat Community of Caves of the Swan Coastal Plain Interim Recovery Plan 2000-2003. Department of Conservation and Land Management, Wanneroo, WA.\n\nPhillimore, R., Evans, R. and Brown, A. 2001. Gillham’s Bell (Darwinia oxylepis) Interim Recovery Plan 2001-2003. Department of Conservation and Land Management, Wanneroo, WA.\n\nPhillimore, R. and Brown, A 2001. Late Hammer Orchid (Drakaea confluens MS) Interim Recovery Plan 2001-2003. Department of Conservation and Land Management, Wanneroo, WA.\n\nPhillimore, R. and Brown, A 2001. Albany Cone Bush (Isopogon uncinatus) Interim Recovery Plan 2001-2003. Department of Conservation and Land Management, Wanneroo, WA.\n\nPhillimore, R. and Brown, A 2001. Stirling Range Beard Heath (Leucopogon Gnaphalioides) Interim Recovery Plan 2001-2003. Department of Conservation and Land Management, Wanneroo, WA.\n\nBarrett, S. 2000. Montane Heath and Thicket of the South West Botanical Province, above 900m above sea level (Eastern Stirling Range Montane Heath and Thicket Community) Interim Recovery Plan 1999-2002. Department of Conservation and Land Management, Wanneroo, WA.\n\nare adopted as recovery plans.\n\nDated this 26th day of March 2002.\n\nDAVID KEMP\n\nMinister for the Environment and Heritage","sortOrder":1}],"analysis":{"flash_summary_failed":{"failed":true,"reason":"A positive credit balance is required for all requests, including BYOK, so fallback providers remain available. Add credits at https://vercel.com/d?to=%2F%5Bteam%5D%2F%7E%2Fai%3Fmodal%3Dtop-up to continue.","source":"analysis-cron"},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The instrument simply adopts the listed state and territory recovery plans as recovery plans under the EPBC Act. It does not amend those plans, create new species coverage, or impose additional statutory obligations in the text provided; it records a recognition decision by the Minister without altering the original scope."},"complexity_factors":["Legal reliance on s269A: ministerial discretion to adopt external plans.","Cross-jurisdictional list: 22 separate plans from five jurisdictions to be recognised.","References to external documents: each recovery plan is adopted by reference rather than reproduced.","Variation in plan status and timing: entries include 'approved' and 'interim' plans with differing date ranges.","No implementation or funding detail in the instrument, leaving administrative and enforcement arrangements to other sources."],"plain_english_summary":"This declaration, made by the Minister under s269A of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, adopts 22 existing state and territory recovery plans as recovery plans under the Act. The listed plans cover specific threatened species and ecological communities from New South Wales, the Northern Territory, Queensland, Tasmania and Western Australia. Mechanically, the Minister decides adoption; the instrument records that adoption but does not itself specify funding, implementation steps, or additional obligations."},"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This instrument performs exactly the function intended by section 269A of the EPBC Act: adopting state/territory recovery plans as national plans. There is no expansion beyond the original statutory purpose."},"complexity_factors":["Single operative provision: ministerial declaration under one section (s269A)","No defined terms, no conditional logic, no cross-references within the instrument itself","Content is purely a schedule/list of adopted documents with bibliographic details","Structure is repetitive but mechanically simple — essentially a table of contents with 22 entries","Legal effect derives entirely from the parent Act (EPBC Act 1999), not from complex provisions within this instrument"],"plain_english_summary":"This ministerial declaration adopts 22 existing state and territory recovery plans as national recovery plans under the EPBC Act. It gives those state-written conservation plans legal weight at the Commonwealth level.\n\nThat affects land managers, developers, state agencies and conservationists because federal decisions must now consider these plans, creating a consistent national approach to protecting listed threatened species and ecological communities."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/f2007b00410","history":"/api/acts/f2007b00410/history","analysis":"/api/acts/f2007b00410/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/f2007b00410/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/f2007b00410/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/f2007b00410/documents"}}