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Feedback from business and non-government organisations at Improving the RMA meetings, June 2004
The Ministry for the Environment held meetings in June with industry and non-government organisations (NGOs) to discuss the government's programme to improve the Resource Management Act.
The meetings with industry took place on 28 June in Wellington and 30 June in Auckland. These were hosted by Ministry for the Environment Chief Executive Barry Carbon and Ministry of Economic Development Chief Executive Geoff Dangerfield.
The meeting with NGOs took place on 29 June in Wellington. It was hosted by Barry Carbon and Department of Conservation Director-General Hugh Logan.
The feedback from the meetings are provided here as verbatim bullet points, under the five subject areas the improvement programme is focusing on. Each subject area's feedback has at the start the relevant slide from a presentation given at the meetings by the Chief Executives. The full presentation is available below.
Feedback
- Balance of national and local interests
- Design and process for local policy
- Consent decision making
- Allocation of natural resources
- Capacity and best practice
- Other subjects
Presentation
Last updated: 6 May 2008
