Queensland Government's Greentape Reduction project

Amendments to the Environmental Protection Act 1994 (Qld) to cut "green tape" for environmental approvals and processes:

The Greentape Reduction project

On 26 October 2011 the Queensland Government, through its Greentape Reduction project headed by the Department of Environment and Resource Management, introduced into State Parliament, a raft of significant reforms to the environmental licensing and approvals process under the Environmental Protection Act 1994 (Qld) (EP Act).

The Greentape Reduction project is comprised of four key initiatives:

• Developing a licensing model that is proportionate to the risk of the activity, ie, lower risk environmentally relevant activities (ERAs) will go through a simpler assessment process to that of higher risk activities.