Bill
Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas Management Legislation Amendment Bill 2017
passed, as at 2017-06-23. Environment and Energy portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Environment and Energy
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2017-03-30
- second reading — 2017-03-30
- second reading — 2017-06-13
- second reading — 2017-06-13
- third reading — 2017-06-13
- introduced — 2017-06-14
- second reading — 2017-06-14
- second reading — 2017-06-19
- second reading — 2017-06-19
- third reading — 2017-06-19
- passed — 2017-06-19
- royal assent — 2017-06-23
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2017-03-30.
The bill would update Australia's system for managing ozone-depleting substances and synthetic greenhouse gases, aligning it with new international commitments.
It would introduce a phase-down of certain hydrofluorocarbons starting in 2018, ahead of the global schedule, and add two newly regulated gases to the existing regime.
The bill would also ease reporting and fee obligations for businesses, including a lower size at which charges stop applying.
- It would start phasing down HFC imports, exports, and production from 2018.
- It would ban new HCFC use from 2020, except for allowed purposes.
- It would regulate nitrogen trifluoride and PFC-9-1-18 as new synthetic greenhouse gases.
- It would harmonize equipment ban rules across all regulated entities.
- It would allow licence renewals, cut reporting frequency, and create a fee exemption threshold.
Businesses holding licences for ozone-depleting substances and synthetic greenhouse gases, plus entities subject to equipment bans.
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