These Regulations implement provisions of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 and CITES. The Regulations are divided into 24 Parts: Preliminary (1); Matters of national environmental significance (2); Actions covered by Ministerial declarations (2A); Bilaterally accredited management plans (2B); Bilateral agreements to which s. 47(1) of the Act apply (3); Referral of proposals to take action (4); Assessing impact of controlled actions (5); Minister's advice on authorizing actions (6); Publication of information relating to assessments (6A); Withdrawal of referrals (6B); Species and communities (7); Interacting with cetaceans and whale watching (8); Access to biological resources in Commonwealth areas (8A); Conservation of biodiversity in Commonwealth areas (9); International movement of wildlife specimens (9A); Management principles for protected areas (10); Commonwealth reserves (11); Activities in Commonwealth reserves (12); Conservation zones (13); List of overseas places of historic significance to Australia (13A); Enforcement (14); Committees (15); Publication (16); Permits (17); Permit fees (18); Miscellaneous (19); Transitional (20). Part 3 sets out the requirements that the Minister must be satisfied are met by a bilateral agreement that includes a declaration under subsection 47(1) of the Act before the Minister enters into the agreement. For purposes of section 72 of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, Part 4 sets out: (a) how to refer a proposal to take an action; and (b) what information such a referral must include. For section 179 of the Act, a native species is in the critically endangered, endangered or vulnerable category if it meets any of the criteria for the category mentioned in the table set out in Part 7. For paragraph 247 (d) of the Act, Division 1 of Part 8 provides for the protection and conservation of cetaceans. The purpose of Part 8A is to provide for the control of access to biological resources For subsection 303 (1) of the Act, Part 9 provides for the conservation of biodiversity in Commonwealth areas. Part 9A concerns the international trade in wildlife specimen in the sense of the Act.
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