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Natural Environment Bill

Foundations - Environmental limits - What are environmental limits and why they are required

50: Where ecosystem health limits must be set

You could also call this:

"Setting limits to keep our environment healthy"

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You will have new rules about keeping our environment healthy. A regional council must set limits to protect freshwater, coastal water, land and soil, and indigenous biodiversity. They must do this to keep our ecosystems healthy. You will see these limits set for each area, like freshwater and coastal water. A regional council can also set limits that cover more than one area if it helps keep our ecosystems healthy. For example, they can set limits for both freshwater and coastal water. A regional council can set limits for air quality, but only if national standards tell them to do so. This means they must follow the national rules when setting limits for air quality.

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Part 2Foundations
Environmental limits: What are environmental limits and why they are required

50Where ecosystem health limits must be set

  1. A regional council must set ecosystem health limits for attributes in each of the following domains:

  2. freshwater:
    1. coastal water:
      1. land and soil:
        1. indigenous biodiversity.

          1. A regional council may set ecosystem health limits for attributes across 2 or more domains if the attribute is relevant to managing ecosystem health across those domains.

          2. An ecosystem health limit for the domain of air may be set by a regional council only if directed by national standards.