188Amending list of key threatening processes

188  Amending list of key threatening processes  (1) The Minister must not add a threatening process to the list unless satisfied that it is eligible to be treated as a key threatening process.  (2) The Minister must not delete a threatening process from the list unless satisfied that it is no longer eligible to be treated as a key threatening process.  (3) A process is a threatening process if it threatens, or may threaten, the survival, abundance or evolutionary development of a native species or ecological community.  (4) A threatening process is eligible to be treated as a key threatening process if:  (a) it could cause a native species or an ecological community to become eligible for listing in any category, other than conservation dependent; or  (b) it could cause a listed threatened species or a listed threatened ecological community to become eligible to be listed in another category representing a higher degree of endangerment; or  (c) it adversely affects 2 or more listed threatened species (other than conservation dependent species) or 2 or more listed threatened ecological communities.