3 x 1.1 hour Webinar Sessions
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NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGERS:

Keep up to date with your environmental compliance obligations

This recorded three session webinar provides a cost-effective and efficient way of learning the latest environmental law developments. It is also designed to ensuring legal risk registers within your Environmental Management System (EMS) are brought up to date. You will learn about key changes and emerging developments in state and federal environmental legislation relevant to environmental aspects and risks of your business operations.

Purpose:
Businesses and organisations need keep up to date with new environmental legislation to avoid costly surprises. Also those operating an ISO 14001 EMS must establish, implement and maintain procedures to identify and access legal requirements applicable to their environmental aspects and risks. The Environmental Legislative Update webinar helps your businesses achieve this.

Who Should Benefit?: Environmental managers and professionals responsible for national compliance will find this course useful to cover your national obligations.  The webinar is scheduled to be viewed live over lunch, so you can eat and learn. Also useful for ensuring your ISO 14001 legal registers are up to date and meet auditor’s requirements.

Webinar Content:

Session 1: NSW Environmental Law Updates                Facilitator: ASBG CEO, Andrew Doig

• Climate Change Action Plan
• Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Plans – development and issues
• EPA’s Draft Transport Emergency Response Plan
• NSW Clean Air Regulations 2022 Review
• Protection of the Environment Operations (General) Regulation 2022 Review
• Changes to Waste Regulations
• First Protection of the Environment Policy
• EPA’s Draft position statement: management of asbestos-contaminated sites
• POEO (General) Amendment (Thermal Energy from Waste) Regulation
• Grafil case #4
• Recycling Plastics Issues
• Review of EPA’s Resource Recovery Framework

1: Victorian Environmental Laws Update:

• Environment Legislation Amendment (Circular Economy and Other Matters) Act 2022
• Draft Environment Protection Amendment (Banning Single-Use Plastic Items) Regulations 2022
• Vic EPA has gazetted limits for selected PFAS contaminated soils
• Environment Protection Amendment Act and Regulation and its implementation issues
• Greenhouse Guidelines under the GED
• Circular Economy (Waste Reduction and Recycling) Act 2021
• Waste framework including management of hazardous waste
• Implementing the new Permits and Registrations requirements
• Determination of Use for waste

2: Queensland Environmental Laws Update:

• Increases in Landfill Levy
• $2.1b waste and resource recovery package
• Updated Energy from Waste Policy
• Waste Management and Resource Recovery Strategy
• Updated - Estimated Rehabilitation Cost (ERC) Guideline
• Guideline - Prevention of fires in waste stockpiles
• Regulated wastes - classification and tracking

 2: South Australian Environmental Laws Update:

• PFAS-contaminated solid waste to be disposed of at the Cleanaway Inkerman landfill
• Waste Levy collection policy
• Environment Protection (Waste Reform) Amendments

 3: Other States and Territories

• E-waste to landfill ban in Western Australian: Consultation Paper
• Draft Tasmanian Waste and Resource Recovery Strategy 2022-2022
• Tasmanian Regulations Scheme Refund Container Draft

3: National,  Federal Laws:  

• Discussion Paper: A National Framework for Recycled Content Tractability
• Meeting of Environment Ministers - 9 June
• Safeguard Mechanism Reforms
• Plastic Export Ban exemptions
• Waste Levies increase across most of Australia
• SSB new IFRS Accounting Standards

Live Webinar - Note this webinar will be also recorded for viewing anytime after the event for registered delegates.

The main benefit of viewing it live is to ask questions, receive answers. All sessions are recorded for webinar viewing later.

Time:    Webinar on demand - Sessions recorded for viewing at any time login and password for the webinar - access until at least December 2023
Venue:  At your computer desktop - requires 5 Mbs download rate - best to use Chrome internet browser
Price:    Members $110         Non-Members $135

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