Strategic Plan 2022-27 Environment Protection Authority

The choices we’ve made

What we’re aiming to achieve

Recognising our operating context and drawing on science and our regulatory expertise, we’ve made strategic choices to set us on the path to the outcomes we want to see:

To see the outcomes we want by 2027, we’re aiming to achieve the following:

Improved air and water quality.

’ We embed the environment protection framework, ensuring the general environmental duty and other duties are widely understood and implemented. We ' re consistent, transparent and proportionate in holding polluters to account. We work with communities, industry and businesses so they act to prevent harm to the environment and human health. We focus on air, water, land, and noise pollution that causes the greatest risk of harm and we drive meaningful improvement. We work to understand and respond to current and emerging issues through science, data and intelligence. We’ll be practical and solution focused to ensure we have the right approach for each circumstance.

Reduced land contamination and noise pollution.

Businesses have appropriate permissions in place.

Increased understanding among communities and businesses of their environmental obligations.

Increased adoption of environmental and human health risk controls.

Industrial waste disposed at a lawful place.

Reduction in repeat polluters.

Increased proactive detection of environmental crime.

Effective internal review and assurance processes that drive continuous improvement.

We build effective partnerships that amplify our knowledge, reach and presence.

We respect the knowledge and cultural values of Traditional Owners. We seek to learn from and include Traditional Owner cultural values as part of our work. We employ our full range of regulatory capabilities to prevent harm by location and sector and at scale.

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