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  Matters of State Environmental Significance                                                                 12/04/2023 12:22:26




  Matters of State Environmental Significance (MSES)
  MSES Categories
  Queensland's State Planning Policy (SPP) includes a biodiversity State interest that states:
  'The sustainable, long-term conservation of biodiversity is supported. Significant impacts on matters of national or state
  environmental significance are avoided, or where this cannot be reasonably achieved; impacts are minimised and residual
  impacts offset.'
  The MSES mapping product is a guide to assist planning and development assessment decision-making. Its primary purpose
  is to support implementation of the SPP biodiversity policy. While it supports the SPP, the mapping does not replace the
  regulatory mapping or environmental values specifically called up under other laws or regulations. Similarly, the SPP
  biodiversity policy does not override or replace specific requirements of other Acts or regulations.

  The SPP defines matters of state environmental significance as:
  - Protected areas (including all classes of protected area except coordinated conservation areas) under the Nature
  Conservation Act 1992 ;
  - Marine parks and land within a 'marine national park', 'conservation park', 'scientific research', 'preservation' or 'buffer' zone
  under the Marine Parks Act 2004 ;
  - Areas within declared fish habitat areas that are management A areas or management B areas under the Fisheries
  Regulation 2008;
  - Threatened wildlife under the Nature Conservation Act 1992 and special least concern animals under the Nature
  Conservation (Wildlife) Regulation 2006;
  - Regulated vegetation under the Vegetation Management Act 1999 that is:
          • Category B areas on the regulated vegetation management map, that are 'endangered' or 'of concern' regional
          ecosystems;
          • Category C areas on the regulated vegetation management map that are 'endangered' or 'of concern' regional
          ecosystems;
          • Category R areas on the regulated vegetation management map;
          • Regional ecosystems that intersect with watercourses identified on the vegetation management watercourse and
          drainage feature map;
          • Regional ecosystems that intersect with wetlands identified on the vegetation management wetlands map;

  - Strategic Environmental Areas under the Regional Planning Interests Act 2014 ;
  - Wetlands in a wetland protection area of wetlands of high ecological significance shown on the Map of Queensland Wetland
  Environmental Values under the Environment Protection Regulation 2019;
  - Wetlands and watercourses in high ecological value waters defined in the Environmental Protection (Water) Policy 2009,
  schedule 2;
  - Legally secured offset areas.




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