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• Foreshore and Seabed Act
• HSNO Act
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Proposed National Environmental Standard for Plantation Forestry

Submissions

The Minister has received a total of 117 submissions on the NES proposal. The Ministry is now in the process of analysing these submissions.

The majority of submissions were from the forestry industry (27), individuals (26) and territorial authorities (23).

Figure 2 represents the different categories of submitters by their proportion (the number indicates the number of submissions in that category).

* Please note that some local government submissions are officer comments only and do not constitute an official council position.

The submissions were grouped into 4 categories according to their position on the proposal. The nature of the submissions received on the proposal was as follows:

1. Support – clear support was indicated for the proposed NES
2. Supports conditionally – support was indicated for an NES, but more than minor changes to the proposal were requested
3. Opposition – clear opposition to the proposed NES was stated
4. Not stated – no clear statement of support or opposition was given, and this could not be determined from the content of the submission

Figure 3 shows the breakdown of submissions by their position (the number indicates the number of submissions in that category).

Electronic copies of all submissions are available to download from the table below.

Table 1: Individual submissions on the proposed NES (Please note that submissions 8, 36 and 56 were withdrawn from the process at the request of the submitter)

Further information

• For more information on standards, see the national environmental standards under the RMA page.
• See the Resource Management Act page which is a gateway to information about the Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA).
• For further questions on the proposed standard contact standards@mfe.govt.nz.

Last updated: 23 May 2011