30Additional requirements for a forest management plan for a continuing plantation CEA

30  Additional requirements for a forest management plan for a continuing plantation CEA

 (1) This section applies to a forest management plan in relation to a continuing plantation CEA.

 (2) The forest management plan must also:

 (a) provide evidence that demonstrates that all management actions to be undertaken or that have been undertaken in relation to the CEA are consistent with that of a viable plantation forest with ongoing cycles of harvesting and planting over the permanence period; and

 (b) include a statement made by a qualified independent person that certifies that the person is of the opinion that the management actions and other management activities to be undertaken in relation to the CEA are consistent with the matters in paragraph (a); and

Note: Where the forest management plan does not change in a reporting period, there is no requirement for a qualified independent person to provide additional certification.

 (c) for the duration of the permanence period, require:

 (i) 10 yearly reviews to be undertaken into whether the forestry management plan appropriately maintains the plantation forest; and

 (ii) the plan to be updated, if necessary, to ensure that it continues to appropriately maintain a plantation forest; and

 (d) include a statement signed by the project proponent and each responsible landholder agreeing to take reasonable steps to implement the forest management plan until the end of the permanence period.

 (3) If, on the eligibility date, a rotation in progress in the CEA was of a species to which subclause 3(4) of Schedule 3 applies, the forest management plan must include a statement made by a qualified independent person that certifies that the person is of the opinion that the rotation was a short or a long rotation, as the case may be, for the purposes of paragraph 3(1)(b) or (2)(b) of that Schedule.

 (4) For this section, a person is a qualified independent person if, at the time the statement is made, they:

 (a) hold qualifications, determined by the Regulator to be necessary to hold, to provide an opinion for subsection (3); and

Note: A person does not have a financial interest in the project merely because they are being paid to review the forest management plan.

 

Subdivision 3.5.4—Ex-plantation CEAs