Regulatory Impact Statements (RISs)

Introduction

RISs provide information on the range of feasible options when legislation is created or amended. Read RISs developed by DOC.

    Streamlining the reclassification of stewardship land

    This Regulatory Impact Statement provides an assessment of proposed legislative amendments to streamline the stewardship land reclassification process.

    Reducing waste in the publication of conservation management planning documents

    This Regulatory Impact Statement provides an assessment of the proposal to modernise the publication requirements for conservation management planning documents.

    Introducing a threshold for the auditing of reserve boards and reserve administrative bodies

    This Regulatory Impact Statement provides an assessment of the proposal to introduce a threshold for the auditing of reserve boards and reserve administrative bodies.

    Targeted amendments to concessions processes

    This Regulatory Impact Statement provides an assessment of options to enable more proactive, transparent, and efficient concessions management through amendments to Part 3B of the Conservation Act 1987.

    Revision of the Hector’s and Māui Dolphin Threat Management Plan: Non-fishing Measures

    This Regulatory Impact Statement was prepared by DOC to provide an analysis of options to manage the effects of (non-fishing) impacts on Hector’s and Māui dolphins as part of a revised Hector’s and Māui Dolphin Threat Management Plan.

    Changes to protection status for two game bird species when on game preserves: Regulatory Impact Statement

    This Regulatory Impact Statement provided an analysis of options to allow commercial upland game preserves to continue operating until the end of the 2021-2022 game bird hunting season.

    Importation of trout meat and trout products: Regulatory Impact Statement

    This Regulatory Impact Statement provides an analysis of options to manage the importation of trout meat and trout products after the current importation prohibition expires.

    Regulatory Impact Statement for the Conservation (Indigenous Freshwater Fish) Amendment Bill

    This Regulatory Impact Statement provides an assessment of the costs and benefits of the proposed legislation.

    Proposal to introduce an infringement notice system for less serious offending against conservation legislation: Regulatory Impact Statement

    This Regulatory Impact Statement provides an assessment of the costs and benefits of the proposed legislation to introduce an infringement notice system for less serious instances of offending under conservation legislation.

    Wildlife (Powers) Amendment Bill: Regulatory Impact Statements

    These Regulatory Impact Statements provide an analysis of options to improve the protection provided by the Wildlife Act 1953, in particular through the enforcement powers used to manage offending.

    Taupo sports fishing conditions and anglers licences: Regulatory Impact Statement

    This Regulatory Impact Statement provides an analysis of options to enable the effective management of the Taupo Sports Fishery by making it practical to more frequently change the conditions for fishing.

    West Coast South Island marine reserves: Regulatory Impact Statement

    This Regulatory Impact Statement has been prepared by the Department of Conservation to provide an analysis of options to undertake the next statutory steps in the creation of five marine reserves on the West Coast South Island.

    Legislation to allow recovery of indigenous timber from some protected areas affected by West Coast (South Island) cyclone event: Regulatory Impact Statement

    This Regulatory Impact Statement has been prepared by the Department of Conservation to provide an analysis of options for the management of timber harvest from South Island West Coast forests on public conservation land recently affected by cyclonic winds (Cyclone Ita).

    Implementing key components of the Kaikōura Marine Strategy

    Read an analysis of the options for implementing the key components of the Kaikōura Marine Strategy, submitted to the government by Te Korowai o Te Tai ō Marokura in 2012.

    Public notification of applications for access to public conservation land to undertake "significant" mining activities

    This Regulatory Impact Statement provides an analysis of options to provide a public notification process for applications for significant minerals access arrangements on public conservation land.

    Tāwharanui Marine Reserve: Regulatory Impact Statement

    Read an analysis of options to provide improved marine protection through the establishment of a marine reserve in the territorial sea along the Auckland coastline east of Warkworth, north of the Tāwharanui peninsula.

    Subantarctic islands marine protected areas: Regulatory Impact Statement

    This Regulatory Impact Statement provides an analysis of options to create marine reserves in the territorial sea around three of New Zealand's subantarctic island groups.

    Future management of Canada goose: Regulatory Impact Statement

    This Regulatory Impact Statement provides an analysis of options for the future management of the Canada goose.

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