Declaration of an Approved Wildlife Trade Management Plan Cut-flower Sustainable Management Plan 2023-2027 Protected and threatened plants in the cut-flower industry (Cth)

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

DECLARATION OF AN APPROVED WILDLIFE TRADE MANAGEMENT PLAN

Cut-flower Sustainable Management Plan 2023-2027 Protected and threatened plants in the cut-flower industry

I, Susan Cooper, Acting Principal Director, Wildlife Trade Office, as Delegate of the Minister for the Environment and Water declare under subsection 303FO(2) of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, that the New South Wales Cut-flower Sustainable Management Plan 2023-2027 Protected and threatened plants in the cut-flower industry is an Approved Wildlife Trade Management Plan for the purposes of section 303FO of the EPBC Act.

Unless amended or revoked, this declaration has effect subject to the following conditions applied under section S303FT:

1. Harvesting and cultivation of plants for the cut-flower industry in New South Wales is to be done in accordance with the Cut-flower Sustainable Management Plan 2023-2027 Protected and threatened plants in the cut-flower industry.

2. The approval excludes wild harvested specimens of species listed as threatened under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.

3. The NSW Department of Planning and Environment must provide an annual report to the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water by 30 August each year. The annual report must include details of: * The number of licences and tags issued. * Harvest data: species harvested, number of plants harvested, source and location of the plant (picked and grown). * Compliance: statistics showing the number and type of offences detected, and the compliance action taken.

4. The NSW Department of Planning and Environment must provide a Wild harvest health and populations report to the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water by 30 June 2027. The report must address all licenced locations for wild harvest and include: * Wild harvest survey locations. * Species licenced for wild harvest at each survey location. * Quantity and types of site surveys completed at each wild harvest location. * Site survey findings, including the health and populations of remaining wild harvest licenced species and a summary of overall survey site health. * A summary assessment of any wild harvest health and population changes observed at survey sites, during the life of this determination.