Bill
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (Customs Charges Imposition) Bill 2025
passed, as at 2025-12-01. Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2025-10-30
- second reading — 2025-10-30
- second reading — 2025-11-04
- second reading — 2025-11-05
- second reading — 2025-11-06
- second reading — 2025-11-06
- third reading — 2025-11-06
- introduced — 2025-11-24
- second reading — 2025-11-24
- second reading — 2025-11-27
- second reading — 2025-11-27
- committee — 2025-11-27
- third reading — 2025-11-27
- passed — 2025-11-27
- royal assent — 2025-12-01
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 2025-10-30.
This bill is one of three in a package that would create a legal basis for charging fees related to the administration of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.
The specific activities subject to charges and their amounts would be set out in regulations, and the charges would be limited to recovering the Commonwealth's costs.
The bill would apply only to charges classified as customs duties, with separate bills covering excise and general charges, as required by the Constitution.
- The bill would impose charges on prescribed matters connected with the EPBC Act.
- The bill would limit charges to cost recovery amounts approved by the Minister.
- The bill would provide for collection and recovery of charges through amendments to the EPBC Act.
People or entities involved in activities regulated under the EPBC Act that are subject to customs charges.
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