Acts administered by the Ministry for the Environment are listed in this section along with the regulations that relate to each Act. Read about each Act and access the Acts and regulations on the New Zealand Legislation website.
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Marine
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Legislation
- Exclusive Economic Zone and Continental Shelf (Environmental Effects) Act 2012
- Regulations under the EEZ Act
- Proposed regulation of the deposit of jettisoned material on the seabed from space vehicles
- About the Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary Bill
- Fiordland Marine Management Act
- Marine pollution regulations
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Legislation
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Land
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RMA
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Waste
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- Publications
- Air
- Environmental reporting on air
- About air quality
- National Environmental Standards for Air Quality
- Ambient air quality guidelines
- Home heating and authorised wood burners
- Monitoring and reporting
- Specific air pollutants
- Resources
- MfE Data Service
- Cabinet papers and related material search
- Publication search
- Climate change
- Environmental reporting on atmosphere and climate
- Overview of climate change
- How climate change could affect New Zealand
- Adapting to climate change
- International forums and agreements
- Reducing greenhouse gas emissions
- New Zealand’s climate change work programme - mitigation
- New Zealand's emissions reduction targets
- New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme
- About the NZ ETS
- Reviews of the NZ ETS
- Legislative and regulatory changes
- Legislative changes to the NZ ETS
- Regulatory changes to the NZ ETS
- Technical updates to the NZ ETS regulations - 2016
- Technical updates to the NZ ETS regulations - 2015
- Technical updates to NZ ETS regulations - 2014
- Updates to allocative baselines - 2014
- Domestic carry-over provisions - 2014
- Operational amendments - 2013
- Regulations banning the use of certain international units - 2012
- Material incorporated by reference
- Participating in the NZ ETS
- Allocations
- The NZ ETS and New Zealand's provisional carbon budget for 2021-2030
- Take action on climate change
- Reporting on greenhouse gas emissions
- Tracking greenhouse gas emissions
- Resources
- Publication search
- Cabinet papers and related material search
- Fresh water
- Environmental reporting on fresh water
- About fresh water
- Freshwater management reforms
- National targets for swimming water quality
- National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management
- National environmental standards
- Regulations for measurement and reporting of water takes
- Water conservation orders
- About water conservation orders
- Existing water conservation orders
- Table of water conservation orders
- Ahuriri River
- Buller River
- Grey River
- Kawarau River
- Lake Wairarapa
- Manganuioteao River
- Mataura River
- Mohaka River
- Motueka River
- Motu River
- Oreti River
- Rakaia River
- Rangitata River
- Rangitikei River
- Te Waihora/Lake Ellesmere
- Current applications
- Former applications
- Water allocation work programme
- Clean-up and protection projects
- Water page for kids
- Freshwater Improvement Fund
- Te Mana o Te Wai Fund
- Tools and guidelines
- MfE Data Service
- Cabinet papers and related material search
- Publication search
- Marine
- Environmental reporting on our marine environment
- About our marine environment
- Reforms
- Legislation
- Exclusive Economic Zone and Continental Shelf (Environmental Effects) Act 2012
- Regulations under the EEZ Act
- Proposed regulation of the deposit of jettisoned material on the seabed from space vehicles
- About the Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary Bill
- Fiordland Marine Management Act
- Marine pollution regulations
- Proposed Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary
- Marine pages for kids
- MfE Data Service
- Cabinet papers and related material search
- Briefing Note 18 June 2015 - New Zealand's international obligations and comparative progress
- Briefing note 11 December 2015 - MPA reform consultation plan 2015-16
- Briefing note 14 September 2015 - Talking points EGI meeting 16 Sept 2015
- Briefing note 2 June 2105 - Ministerial and agency feedback on the Marine Protected Areas (MPA) draft consultation document
- Briefing note 29 January 2016 - MPA reform - iwi engagement
- Briefing note 29 October 2015 - Response to request for advice on marine spatial planning
- Briefing note 31 August 2015 - Marine collaborative processes - funding options
- Briefing note 6 November 2015 - Upcoming meeting with the Conservation Iwi Leaders Group
- Cabinet EGI - approach to reform New Zealand's marine protection framework and establish recreational fishing parks
- Cabinet EGI paper 18 June 2015 - Draft consultation document on marine protection framework
- Publication search
- Land
- Environmental reporting on land
- About contaminated land
- Guidelines for managing contaminated land
- National Environmental Standard for Assessing and Managing Contaminants in Soil to Protect Human Health
- Contaminated Sites Remediation Fund
- National Environmental Standards for Plantation Forestry
- NZ Landcare Trust
- MfE Data Service
- Cabinet papers and related material search
- Publication search
- RMA
- About the RMA
- Introduction to the RMA
- Roles and responsibilities
- Central government
- Local government
- Ministerial
- Requiring authorities
- About requiring authorities
- Applying for requiring authority status
- Changes to a requiring authority
- List of requiring authorities
- Ardmore Airport Ltd
- Auckland International Airport Ltd
- BellSouth New Zealand
- Broadcast Communications Ltd
- Christchurch International Airport Ltd
- Invercargill Airport Ltd
- Mainpower NZ Ltd
- New Zealand Rail Limited
- New Zealand Transport Agency
- North Otago Water Harvesting and Irrigation Company Ltd
- Palmerston North Airport Ltd
- Tasman Energy Limited
- Transpower New Zealand Ltd - Notice
- Transpower New Zealand Ltd
- Tranz Rail Ltd
- Waikato Regional Airport
- Wellington International Airport Limited
- List of revoked requiring authorities
- Heritage protection authorities
- Glossary of RMA terms
- Processes and how to get involved
- Reforms and amendments
- Legislative tools
- Monitoring and reporting
- About compliance, monitoring and enforcement by local authorities
- About the National Monitoring System
- Information requirements for the National Monitoring System
- National Monitoring System reporting for 2014/15
- About the reporting for 2014/15
- Data tool
- Plan-making
- About plan-making
- Efficiency and effectiveness monitoring
- Policy statement and plan reviews
- Preparation of policy statements and plans, changes and variations
- Drivers of plan-making processes
- National instruments driving plan-making processes
- Non-statutory plan-making processes
- Hearings
- Timeframes and costs
- Legal effect of rules
- Resource consents
- About resource consents
- Resource consents processed
- Pre-application meetings
- Receipt of applications and ‘completeness’
- Information requests under section 92(1)
- Notification of resource consents
- Extending the resource consent processing timeframes
- Resource consents processed within statutory timeframes
- Decisions
- Charges for resource consents
- Discounts
- Objections to decisions or charges
- Resources
- Complaints, monitoring, compliance and enforcement
- Māori participation
- Data limitations and disclaimer
- Citing reporting and data
- Previous reporting
- Review and investigations of local authorities
- Making Good Decisions Programme
- Proposals of national significance
- Environmental Legal Assistance Fund
- Resources
- Publication search
- Cabinet papers and related material search
- About the RMA
- Waste
- Waste strategy and legislation
- Waste disposal levy
- Proposed National Environmental Standard for the Outdoor Storage of Tyres
- Role of local government
- Product stewardship
- About product stewardship
- Applying for accreditation
- Accredited voluntary schemes
- Agrecovery
- Envirocon
- Fonterra Milk for Schools Recycling Programme
- Fuji Xerox Zero Landfill Scheme
- Interface ReEntry
- Plasback
- Public Place Recycling Scheme
- Refrigerant recovery
- RE:MOBILE
- Resene PaintWise
- Recovering Oil Saves the Environment
- Sharp NZ's recycling and waste reduction
- The Glass Packaging Forum
- Accredited voluntary schemes no longer operating
- Mandatory product stewardship
- Local and international initiatives
- 2014 consultation on priority waste streams
- Waste Advisory Board
- Waste Minimisation Fund
- Guidance and resources
- Waste reports and statistics
- Waste List
- 01 — Wastes resulting from exploration, mining, quarrying, and physical and chemical treatment of minerals
- 02 — Wastes from agriculture
- 03 — Wastes from wood processing and the production of panels and furniture, pulp, paper and cardboard
- 04 — Wastes from the leather, fur and textile industries
- 05 — Wastes from petroleum refining, natural gas purification and pyrolytic treatment of coal
- 06 — Wastes from inorganic chemical processes
- 07 — Wastes from organic chemical processes
- 08 — Wastes from the manufacture, formulation, supply and use of coatings, adhesives, sealants and printing inks
- 09 — Wastes from the photographic industry
- 10 — Wastes from thermal processes
- 11 — Wastes from chemical surface treatment and coating of metals and other materials; non-ferrous hydro-metallurgy
- 12 — Wastes from shaping and physical and mechanical surface treatment of metals and plastics
- 13 — Oil wastes and wastes of liquid fuels (except edible oils, 05 and 12)
- 14 — Waste organic solvents, refrigerants and propellants (except 07 and 08)
- 15 — Waste packaging; absorbents, wiping cloths, filter materials and protective clothing not otherwise specified
- 16 — Wastes not otherwise specified in the list
- 17 — Construction and demolition wastes (including excavated soil from contaminated sites)
- 18 — Wastes from human or animal health care and/or related research
- 19 — Wastes from waste management facilities
- 20 — Municipal wastes
- Freedom camping and caravan waste
- Publication search
- Cabinet papers and related material search
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- Acts and regulations
- Climate Change Response Act 2002
- Environment Act 1986
- Environmental Protection Authority Act 2011
- Environmental Reporting Act 2015
- Exclusive Economic Zone and Continental Shelf (Environmental Effects) Act 2012
- Fiordland Marine Management Act 2005
- HSNO Act 1996
- Ozone Layer Protection Act 1996 and Ozone Layer Protection Regulations 1996
- Resource Management Act 1991
- Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Act 1941
- Waste Minimisation Act 2008
- Regulatory Impact Statement – Cabinet paper for policy decisions for Resource Legislation Amendment Bill Departmental Report
- Awards
- Green Ribbon Awards
- 2016 Green Ribbon Award winners
- 2016 Green Ribbon Awards finalists
- Past winners
- 2016 Green Ribbon Award nominees
- 2015 Green Ribbon Award winners
- 2015 Green Ribbon Award finalists
- 2015 Green Ribbon Award nominees
- 2014 finalists
- 2014 nominees
- 2014 winners
- 2013 finalists
- 2013 winners
- 2013 nominees
- 2012 winners
- 2012 finalists
- 2012 nominees
- 2011 winners
- 2011 finalists
- 2010 winners
- 2009 winners
- 2008 winners
- 2007 winners
- 1990-2006 winners
- Other environmental awards
- Green Ribbon Awards
- Biodiversity
- About biodiversity
- A national policy statement for biodiversity
- Marine biodiversity
- Pest control and biodiversity
- Publication search
- Cabinet papers and related material search
- Cabinet papers and related material search
- Cabinet papers
- Proposal for Exclusive Economic Zone environmental effects legislation
- Proposal for Exclusive Economic Zone Environmental Effects Legislation - Recommendations
- Towards a Sustainable New Zealand: Overview paper
- Proposal for EEZ - Cabinet decisions
- Towards a Sustainable New Zealand: Household Sustainability Programme
- Towards a Sustainable New Zealand: Update on the Household Sustainability Programme
- Advisory Group on Green Growth initiatives
- Approval for public consultation on a proposed National Policy Statement on Urban Development Capacity
- Briefing Paper: Advisory Group on Green Growth Initiatives - Terms of Reference
- CAB (07) 15 - Towards a Sustainable New Zealand: Next Steps
- Cabinet Minute CAB Min (11) 1/28: Advisory Group on Green Growth Initiatives
- Cabinet Paper: Freshwater reform: Next steps and discussions at Waitangi 2015
- Cabinet Paper: Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary
- Cabinet Paper: Paris Agreement on Climate Change: Approval to Begin the Parliamentary Treaty Examination Process
- Cabinet Paper: Paris Agreement on climate change - ratification and domestic action
- Cabinet Paper: Resource Legislation Amendment Bill
- Cabinet Paper: Resource Legislation Amendment Bill: Second Phase of Resource Management reform and approval for introduction
- Cabinet Paper: Second Phase of Resource Management Reforms: Batch 1 of policy decisions
- Cabinet Paper: Second Phase of Resource Management Reforms: Batch 2 of policy decisions
- Cabinet Paper: Streamlining the regulatory regime for pest control
- Cabinet minute: Permitted activity regulations
- Cabinet minute: Transfer of discharge and dumping regulatory function
- Cabinet minutes: Proposal for EEZ environmental effects legislation
- Cabinet paper – Final policy decisions for environmental reporting topics
- Cabinet paper: Paris Climate Change Agreement - Report back to Cabinet and Approval for Signature
- EEZ and ECS Legislation interim measures to the Regulatory regime for Offshore Petroleum
- Exclusive Economic Zone and Extended Continental Shelf Environmental Effects Legislation Interim Measures
- Fresh water - proposals following next steps
- Freshwater Reform: Consultation on Amendments to the National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management
- Freshwater programme: Amendments to the National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management
- New Zealand's intended contribution to the new global climate change agreement
- POL (07) 131 - Towards a Sustainable New Zealand: Carbon Neutral Public Service
- POL (07) 132 - Towards a Sustainable New Zealand: Measures to minimise solid waste
- POL (07) 215 - Towards a Sustainable New Zealand: Carbon Neutral Public Service – Offset Portfolio
- Permitted Activties Proposals for Exclusive Economic Zone Environmental Effects Regulations
- Pest Control - Minor Amendment to Resource Management (Exemption) Regulations 2017
- Policy decisions for Resource Legislation Amendment Bill Departmental Report
- Prohibiting the importation of asbestos containing roducts
- Proposal for EEZ environmental effects legislation
- Proposal for Exclusive Economic Zone Environment Effects Legislation CAB Min (11) 19/7B
- Proposal for Exclusive Economic Zone Environment Effects Legislation CAB Paper 2011
- Resource Management (Exemption) Regulations 2017 – Pest Control
- Resource Management (National Environmental Standards for Telecommunication Facilities) Regulations 2016
- Streamlining the regulatory regime for pest control – advice following consultation
- Transfer of discharge and dumping regulatory function
- Cabinet minutes
- EGI Min (12) 10/3: Emissions Trading Scheme: Forestry, Agriculture and Other Technical and Operational Changes
- CBC Min (03) 3/12: Legislative changes for new organisms - Overview
- EGI Min (12) 8/4: Emissions Trading Scheme Review 2011: Proposed Amendments relating to synthetic greenhouse gases sector
- CAB Min (12) 8/7: Emissions Trading Scheme Review 2012: Proposed Amendments
- CBC Min (03) 3/13: Laboratory Research, Cloning, and Human Cell Lines
- CAB Min (03) 4/1B: Streamlining the Approval Process for Medicines That Are or Contain New Organisms
- CAB Min (03) 4/3: Conditional Release and Enforcement
- CBC Min (03) 3/16: Liability Issues for Genetic Modification
- BC Min (03) 3/17: Ministerial Call-In and Confidential Supporting Information
- CBC Min (03) 3/18: Improving the Operation of the HSNO Act for New Organisms Including Zoo and Circus Animals
- POL Min (03) 7/14: Changes to More Appropriately Reflect the Treaty of Waitangi Relationship under the HSNO Act
- CAB Min (01) 27/5A: Climate Change: Next Steps for Ratification of the Kyoto Protocol Climate Change
- CAB Min (01) 31/11: Climate Change: Paper 1: Policy Issues for Act 1 Ratification Legislation
- CAB Min (01) 31/12: Climate Change: Paper 2: Domestic Policy Options
- CAB Min (01) 31/13: Climate Change: Paper 3: Plan for Consultation and Release of Discussion Document
- CAB Min (01) 31/14: Climate Change: Paper 4: Economic Development Opportunities
- CAB Min (02) 13/10: Climate Change II: New Policies
- CAB Min (02) 13/11: Climate Change III: The Role of Local Government
- CAB Min (02) 13/12: Climate Change IV: Adapting to Climate Change
- CAB Min (02) 13/9: Climate Change I: Kyoto Protocol Preferred Policy Package: Overview
- CAB Min (02) 26/16: Climate Change I: Confirmation of Preferred Policy Package
- CAB Min (02) 26/17: Climate Change II: Public Awareness and Education, Business Opportunities and Local Government Partnership
- CAB Min (02) 26/18: Climate Change III: Work Programme, Budget and Institution for Climate Change Project
- CAB Min (02) 26/19: Climate Change IV: The Role of the Resource Management Act (RMA)
- CAB Min (02) 4/3: Setting the Direction for Future Domestic Policy Options and Ratification of the Kyoto Protocol
- CAB Min (05) 14/10: Review of Operation of Negotiated Greenhouse Agreement Policy
- CAB Min (09) 10/4: Climate Change International Negotiations: Update and New Zealand Position
- CAB Min (09) 23/2A: Moderated NZ ETS: Potential Policy Packages
- CAB Min (09) 28/10: Amendments for a Moderated ETS
- CAB Min (09) 9/10: NZ ETS: Harmonisation with Australian Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- CBC Min (06) 17/18: Climate change: Options for controlling vehicle entry - fuel economy standards
- CBC Min (11) 6/11: Phase II of the Resource Management Reforms: Urban and Infrastructure Planning and General Issues
- Cabinet Paper: Fresh Water: Allocation Work Programme
- Cabinet minute: Proposed National Policy Statement on Indigenous Biodiversity: Release for Public Consultation
- EGI Min (10) 21/11: ETS: Proposed regulations for synthetic greenhouse gases
- EGI Min (10) 21/8: ETS: Regulations for solid waste disposal facilities
- EGI Min (11) 17/5: Proposed Environmental Reporting Bill: Release of Discussion Document
- EGI Min (13) 6/4: A Proposed National Environmental Standard for Plantation Forestry
- POL Min (01) 14/2: Climate Change: Directions for Public Education
- POL Min (01) 21/7: Climate Change Dialogue with Māori: Issues Arising from the Initial Dialogue Phase
- POL Min (01) 32/14: Climate Change: Institutional Arrangements for Inventory, Registry and Crown Trading Functions
- POL Min (01) 7/3: A three stage process for developing and implementing negotiated greenhouse agreements with industry
- POL Min (02) 21/12: Climate Change: Negotiated Greenhouse Agreements (NGAs)
- POL Min (02) 21/14: Climate Change: Administrative arrangements for the projects mechanism
- POL Min (03) 8/8: Climate Change: Final policy for negotiated greenhouse agreements (NGAs)
- POL min (03) 6/4: Climate Change: The projects mechanism - details and process
- Permitted Activities Proposals for EEZ Environment Effects Regulations
- STR (09) 18: Moderated NZ ETS: Potential Policy Packages
- STR Min (09) 10/1: Climate Change Policy Options
- STR Min (09) 11/1: Moderated NZ ETS: Potential Policy Packages
- Briefing notes
- Briefing note 09-B-00576: Towards New Zealand’s 2020 Emissions Reduction Target: Update on Analytical Work
- Briefing Paper 10-B-00003:Resource Consent Applications for Dairy Farming Under-Cover in the MacKenzie Basin
- Briefing note 09-B-01292: Climate Change: approach to determining New Zealand’s medium-term target
- Briefing note 09-B-1507: New Zealand’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions Projections to 2020
- Briefing note 09-B-01597: New Zealand’s 2020 target: initial results and implications
- Briefing Paper 10-B-0117:Mackenzie Dairying Call-In: Call-In Direction, Appointment Letters and Terms of Reference for the Board
- Briefing note 09-B-01825: New Zealand’s 2020 Target – further analysis and options
- Briefing note 09-B-01908: Land use area figures identified by the LUCAS mapping programme
- Briefing note 09-B-01970: Macro-economic impacts of different 2020 targets
- Briefing note 09-B-02067: Final updated report on modelling the economic impacts of different 2020 target scenarios
- Briefing note 09-B-02068: Impacts of 2020 targets on the Māori economy
- Briefing note 09-B-02155: Implications of the 2020 target on the second commitment period
- Briefing note 09-B-0897: Mitigation and mitigation costs estimates for the period 2013-2020: Background and intended approach
- Briefing Paper 10-B-00041: Ministerial Intervention – Environment Canterbury Under-Cover Farming Resource Consent Applications
- Briefing about the Environment Portfolio and the Ministry for the Environment
- Briefing for incoming Ministers: All-of-government Climate Change programme
- Briefing note: Draft cabinet paper: Managing water quality limits under the national policy statement for freshwater management
- Briefing note: Economic Studies - The potential impacts of water quality limits on non-economic values (Southland case study)
- Briefing note: Freshwater Reform: Approach to consultation on national policy statements amendments
- Briefing note: Freshwater planning and the scope of the collaborative process
- Briefing note: Progressing national objectives framework and amendments to the policy statement for freshwater management
- Briefing note: Water Reform - Overview: Implementing the Water Reform Strategy
- Briefing note: Water Reform: Cabinet paper on release of white paper
- Briefing note: Water Reform: Draft Cabinet papers for Minister's review
- Briefing note: Water Reform: Draft cabinet papers
- Briefing note: Water Reform: Key information for EGI on Wednesday 5 December 2012
- Briefing note: Water Reform: Objectives and limits - location based discharge allowances
- Briefing note: Water Reform: Objectives and limits - presentation on national objectives framework
- Regulatory impact statements
- Exclusive Economic Zone and Continental Shelf (Environmental Effects) Act 2012 Amendment Bill 2015
- Activity classification of burial at sea, and discharge and dumping activities
- Amending the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms (Organisms Not Genetically Modified) Regulations 1998
- Draft Regulatory Impact Statement on Proposed Amendments to the National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management
- Draft Regulatory Impact Statement on proposed amendments to the NESCS
- Emergency legislation to assist recovery in the areas affected by the Kaikōura earthquake sequence from 14 November 2016
- Fresh Start For Fresh Water – Objective and Limit Setting
- Improving alignment of the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme with New Zealand’s provisional 2030 emissions reduction target
- Kermadec Ocean Santuary
- National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management 2014
- New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme regulations updates
- Options for reviewing the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms (Organisms Not Genetically Modified) Regulations 1998
- Proposed National Environmental Standard for Assessing Managing Contaminants in Soil to Protect Human Health
- Proposed amendments to Ozone Layer Protection Regulations to repeal hydrochlorofluorocarbon wholesaler permits and importation
- Proposed amendments to the National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management 2014
- RIS - Resource Legislation Amendment Bill 2015: EEZ Amendments
- RIS : Climate Change (Synthetic Greenhouse Gases) Regulations 2010
- RIS for the Proposed NPS on Urban Development Capacity under the RMA
- RIS for the Proposed National Policy Statement on Urban Development Capacity under the Resource Management Act 1991
- RIS: Activity classification of exploration drilling under the EEZ and Continental Shelf (Environmental Effects) Act 2012
- RIS: Climate Change Response (Disposal Facilities) Regulations 2010
- RIS: Climate Change Response (Emissions Trading Forestry Sector) Amendment Bill
- RIS: ETS Review 2011: Proposed amendments to the Climate Change Response Act 2002 – Part 2 – Synthetic Greenhouse Gases
- RIS: Emissions Trading Scheme: Regulations for the Kyoto Protocol commitment period
- RIS: Proposed options to include fugitive coal seam methane in allocative baselines in the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme
- RIS: Regulation of deposit of jettisoned material from space rocket launches
- RIS: Resource Legislation Amendment Bill 2015
- RIS: Resource Legislation Amendment Bill 2015: Alignment of decision-making processes for nationally significant proposals
- RISt: ETS Review 2011: Proposed amendments to the Climate Change Response Act 2002 – Part 1
- Reducing the impact of microbeads in personal care products on the environment
- Regulations deeming joint irrigation/hydroelectricity generation projects as network utility operations
- Regulatory Impact Statement Carbon Price Methodology for the Synthetic Greenhouse Gas Levy
- Regulatory Impact Statement Industrial Allocation under the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme: Group Six
- Regulatory Impact Statement NZETS Industrial Allocation for Production of Reconstituted Wood Panels (Group 5 Activity)
- Regulatory Impact Statement NZETS: Industrial allocation for group 3 activities
- Regulatory Impact Statement New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme: Draft Fishing Allocation Plan
- Regulatory Impact Statement New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme: Industrial allocation
- Regulatory Impact Statement New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme: Industrial allocation
- Regulatory Impact Statement New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme: Industrial allocation for group 4 activities
- Regulatory Impact Statement: ETS Review 2011: Proposed amendments to the Climate Change Response Act 2002
- Regulatory Impact Statement: Emissions Trading Regulations: Threshold for Liquid Fuels Opt-In
- Regulatory Impact Statement: NZETS: Industrial allocation for group 2 activities
- Regulatory Impact Statement: Prohibiting the importation of asbestos containing products
- Regulatory Impact Statement: Re-registration arbitrage by post-1989 forest land participants in the ETS
- Regulatory Impact Statements: ETS Review 2011: Proposed amendments to the Climate Change Response Act 2002 – Part 3
- Regulatory impact statement – Amendments to the National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management 2011
- Regulatory impact statement: Freshwater reform: Governance
- Regulatory impact statement: Streamlined process for the review of Christchurch City's District Plans
- Stock exclusion
- Streamlining the regulatory regime for pest control
- Updating the National Environmental Standards for Telecommunication Facilities
- Cabinet papers
- Community and public
- Consultations
- Data
- Energy
- Environmental remediation projects
- Environmental reporting
- About environmental reporting
- New Zealand's reports
- Air
- Atmosphere and climate
- Fresh water
- Land
- Marine
- Data improvement
- OECD reviews of New Zealand’s environmental performance
- Publication search
- Cabinet papers and related material search
- Historical environmental reporting
- Funding
- Sources of funding
- Community Environment Fund
- Contaminated Sites Remediation Fund
- Environmental Legal Assistance Fund
- Freshwater Improvement Fund
- Waste Minimisation Fund
- About the fund
- Key dates and applying
- Projects funded to date
- Profiles of funded projects
- Tackling the problem of used tyres in New Zealand
- Alpine community recycling stations
- Food waste collection service
- Marae waste minimisation project
- Milk bottle reincarnation
- Packaging awards
- Recycling centre
- Residential red-zone household hazardous waste management
- Resource recovery centre
- Soft plastic recycling scheme
- Vermicomposting trial
- Wood waste processing
- Accreditation scheme for hospitality sector
- Te Mana o Te Wai Fund
- Funding contact details
- Hazards
- About environmental risks in New Zealand
- New organisms
- About new organisms
- About genetic modification in NZ
- Genetic modification in New Zealand
- Genetically modified food, crops and medicines
- Exporting living modified organisms
- Royal Commission on Genetic Modification
- Treaty of Waitangi and new organisms
- Have your say – making submissions about new organisms
- Hazardous substances
- Ozone depleting substances
- Publication search
- Cabinet papers and related material search
- International environmental agreements
- Free trade and environmental cooperation agreements
- Multilateral environmental agreements
- About multilateral environment agreements
- Antarctica Treaty System
- Basel Convention
- Convention on Biological Diversity
- Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species
- International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships
- London Dumping Convention
- Minamata Convention on Mercury
- Noumea Convention
- Ramsar Convention
- Rotterdam Convention
- United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
- Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants
- United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
- Vienna Convention and the Montreal Protocol
- Waigani Convention
- Natural hazard management
- Towns and cities
- Acts and regulations
- Publications
Acts and regulations administered by the Ministry for the Environment
In this section
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Information about the Climate Change Response Act 2002 and regulations under this Act.
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Information about the Environment Act 1986.
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Information about the Environmental Protection Authority Act 2011.
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Information about the Environmental Reporting Act 2015.
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Information about the Exclusive Economic Zone and Continental Shelf (Environmental Effects) Act 2012 and regulations under this Act.
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Information on the Fiordland (Te Moana o Atawhenua) Marine Management Act 2005.
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Information about the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996 and regulations under this Act.
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Information about the Ozone Layer Protection Act 1996 and the Ozone Layer Protection Regulations 1996.
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Information about the Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA) and regulations under this Act.
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Information about the Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Act 1941.
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Information about the Waste Minimisation Act 2008 and regulations under this Act.
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This Regulatory Impact Statement has been prepared by the Ministry for the Environment to accompany the Cabinet paper: Policy decisions for Resource Legislation Amendment Bill Departmental Report.