Correspondence Received Relating To Reforms Of The EPBC Act.

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The Association of Mining and Exploration Companies (AMEC) submitted feedback to DCCEEW on proposed Nature Positive reforms to the EPBC Act in March 2024. AMEC represents over 570 member companies in mineral exploration and mining, noting the sector employs 274,000 people and generated $413 billion in exports in 2021/22. Rather than addressing specific reform content, AMEC's submission emphasizes industry concerns about inadequate consultation processes, characterizing the patchwork of consultations as making complex reforms "opaque and hard to understand." AMEC calls for a 12-week formal consultation period with complete legislative reform proposals supplied before parliamentary introduction. The submission frames mineral exploration and mining as operating within existing state and Commonwealth environmental approval regimes, though the excerpt does not detail specific projects, sites, or environmental data affected by proposed reforms.