31Way that Commonwealth will disseminate information

31 Way that Commonwealth will disseminate information

(1) The Commonwealth will ensure that information disseminated for the purposes of this Measure will:

(a) be in plain language, simply laid out, and include substance information to assist in interpretation as agreed between participating jurisdictions;

(b) subject to subclause 31(2), be free to the public (access via Internet, libraries, community organisations);

(c) be nationally available;

(d) include where practicable a geographic information system to allow information on the National Pollutant Inventory database to be viewed by locality, substance, reporting facility, activity or any combination of these factors;

(e) identify:

(i) additional information provided under clause 21;

(ii) the dates describing the reporting period for particular emission and transfer data, if this is not a reporting year;

(f) include where practicable, links and references to direct users to further information or databases; and

(g) clearly differentiate transfer data from emission data.

(2) The Commonwealth may seek to recover dissemination costs of information derived from the National Pollutant Inventory data but notes that this does not allow the Commonwealth to recover costs for the provision of the emission data, mandatory and voluntary transfer data, supporting data, substance information, aggregated emission data or aggregated transfer data specified in this Measure.