The Conservation Regulator oversees the regulation of timber harvesting, public land use, biodiversity and fire prevention within the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP).
Now into our second year of operation, the Conservation Regulator has continued to refine and improve our regulatory practice.
Our mission
To be an effective, trusted, best practice regulator
Our mission was developed in 2019 and continued to anchor the Conservation Regulator’s activities throughout 2020–21.
Our regulatory outcomes
We regulate to achieve three key outcomes:
- Equitable and safe access to public land and use of natural resources
- Protected natural and heritage values
- Sustainable communities – social, economic and environmental
Our Regulatory Approach is represented in Figure 1 Overview of our Regulatory Approach below. This approach is central to articulating how we will undertake our regulatory role, in order to achieve the key outcomes outlined above.
Our regulatory priorities
In 2020–21 we updated our regulatory priorities to best represent the main risks to our regulatory objectives across Victoria. This resulted in expanding the priorities to the following:
Our regulatory priorities
We have been proactive in educating the community about these risks as well as continuing to maintain both proactive and reactive compliance and enforcement activities across these regulatory priorities.
Figure 1: Overview of our Regulatory Approach
Updated