3 x 1.1 hour Webinar Sessions
Review recorded version at any time on-line after live sessions

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

• Chief Scientist’s Asbestos Management Review
• Climate Change (Net Zero Future) Bill 2023
• Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Plans & development and issues
• Environmental Legislation Amendment (Hazardous Chemicals) Bill 2023
• Biosolids Guidelines Review
• NSW Clean Air Regulations 2022
• EPA v Sydney Water LEC: Voluntary Environmental Audit win
• Integrated Waste Tracking Solution
• Exemption Order: Discharge of PFAS firefighting foams
• Innovative Resource Recovery Framework review
• Protection from Harmful Radiation Act 1990 First Protection of the Environment Policy
• NSW Plastics Next Steps

1: Victorian Environmental Laws Update:

• High Court Removed Victoria’s Electric Vehicle Travel Tax
• Environment Legislation Amendment (Circular Economy and Other Matters) Bill 2022
• Victoria's Container deposit scheme starts November
• Climate Change and Energy Legislation Amendment (Renewable Energy and Storage Targets) Bill 2023
• Environment Legislation Amendment (Circular Economy and Other Matters) Act 2022
• Determination of Use for waste reuse & recycling 
• Waste framework including management of hazardous waste
• Determination of Use for waste reuse & recycling

2: Queensland Environmental Laws Update:

• Increasing the powers and penalties provisions of the EPA Act 1994
• The Waste Reduction and Recycling and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2023
• Wine bottles include in CDS
• Public consultation - Draft Landfill siting, design, operation and closure guideline update
• $2.1b waste and resource recovery package - Plasticrecycling support
• Updated Energy from Waste Policy
• Waste Management and Resource Recovery Strategy
• Guideline – Prevention of fires in waste stockpiles
• Regulated wastes –classification and tracking

 2: South Australian Environmental Laws Update:

• PFAS--Groundwater Prohibition Areas established
• 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:  

• Carbon Leakage Review Consultation Paper
• Meeting of Environment Ministers - 9 June
• Safeguard Mechanism Reforms - Production variables update No.2
• IChEMS: Brominated flame retardants & Short chain chlorinated paraffins
• Australia’s Guarantee of Origin scheme
• Community Engagement Review Discussion Paper
• 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:    Live each day from 10:55 am start until 12 noon
Venue:  At your computer desktop - requires 5 Mbs download rate - best to use Chrome internet browser
Price:    Members $110         Non-Members $130

Register and pay by Credit Card or Register and be invoiced