EDS Analysis of Resource Management (Simplifying and Streamlining) Amendment Bill

EDS has updated its guidance on the Resource Management (Simplifying and Streamlining) Amendment Bill after taking advice from our Technical Advisory Group of experts. Click here to view the modified advice.  To see a clause-by-clause analysis in tabular form, click here. 

EDS has also undertaken a case review of the law on security of costs.  To read about it click here.

Please note that submissions on the Bill close on Friday 3 April at 5.00 pm with the Local Government and Environment Select Committee. Further advice on making a submission is available on Parliament's website http://www.parliament.govt.nz/.
 
Both the phase 1 (current) and phase 2 (proposed) RMA amendments will be the focus of EDS's national conference Reform in Paradise: threat or opportunity, Auckland, 8-9 June 2009. Registrations for this important and timely event are now open at http://www.edsconference.com/.

EDS provides RMA community advice

EDS provides advice and assistance to community groups and individuals on environmental issues on a one-on-one basis on request. The level of assistance provided will depend on each individual case and may include telephone or email advice, meetings in person, site visits, review of submissions, provision of legal or other expert advice or EDS becoming directly involved in the issue.

Reform in Paradise: threat or opportunity?

SKYCITY Convention Centre, Auckland, 8-9 June 2009

New Zealand's environmental management institutions were largely established during the late 1980s, as part of the broader governmental reorganisation of that time. More recently, concerns have been expressed about the ability of these institutions, both national and regional, to effectively address current environmental and infrastructural issues facing the country.

Reform in Paradise will focus on critically examining how well New Zealand's current environmental governance structure is performing and how it might be strengthened in the future.

www.edsconference.com 

Hardcopy guide to the RMA available

EDS in association with Craig Potton Publishing produces The New Zealanders' Guide to the Resource Management Act 1991.

The 3^rd edition is now on sale.

Click here for more information.

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Material offered on this site is done so in good faith but with no guarantee as to it being comprehensive or accurate. This site is not a substitute for proper professional advice where that is needed.