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Natural Environment Bill

Foundations - National instruments - National standards

85: Minister must ensure national standards enables resource use only within environmental limits

You could also call this:

"Minister makes rules to protect the environment when using natural resources"

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The Minister is making new rules for using natural resources. You will be affected by these rules. The Minister must make sure people use natural resources without harming the environment. The Minister checks the new rules to see if they might harm the environment. You can expect the Minister to fix any problems they find. The Minister looks at the rules to see if people might break environmental limits. If that might happen, the Minister makes stricter rules or tells regional councils to watch what's happening. The Minister also finds ways to change what people are allowed to do to avoid harming the environment. The Minister keeps an eye on how the new rules are working and checks if they need to be changed. The Minister reviews the rules to make sure they are working and to add new environmental limits. This helps keep the environment safe for you and your community.

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Part 2Foundations
National instruments: National standards

85Minister must ensure national standards enables resource use only within environmental limits

  1. When preparing national standards that enable the use of natural resources, the Minister must use all reasonable endeavours to ensure that the standards enable the use of those natural resources to occur only within environmental limits.

  2. The Minister must assess the proposed national standards to identify any reasonably foreseeable adverse risks of environmental limits being breached.

  3. The Minister ensure that any risks identified are addressed in the proposed national standards to avoid breaching an environmental limit, including—

  4. if there is a possibility that the limit will be breached, by requiring a rule in a plan or a condition of a permit that is more restrictive than the standard; and
    1. directing regional councils to undertake forecasting or monitoring; and
      1. providing a means by which an activity class may be changed to avoid breaching the limit.

        1. The Minister must—

        2. undertake monitoring and evaluation of national standards or enable it to be undertaken; and
          1. review existing national standards in light of performance monitoring and to account for new environmental limits.