Review of Regulatory Burden on the Upstream Petroleum (Oil and Gas) Sector
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This research report was released on 30 April 2009.
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- Preliminaries (PDF - 315 Kb)
Cover, Copyright, Foreword, Terms of reference, Contents, Abbreviations and explanations and Glossary - Overview - including key points (PDF - 326 Kb)
- Recommendations (PDF - 215 Kb)
- Chapter 1 What is this study about? (PDF - 210 Kb)
1.1 Background to this study
1.2 What the Commission has been asked to do
1.3 Scope of the study
1.4 Approach of the study
1.5 The conduct of this study
1.6 Report structure - Chapter 2 The upstream petroleum sector (PDF - 274 Kb)
2.1 Oil and gas in Australia
2.2 Structure and size of the sector in a global context
2.3 Exploration, development and production
2.4 Industry structure - Chapter 3 What is an unnecessary regulatory burden? (PDF - 231 Kb)
3.1 Why regulate the upstream petroleum sector?
3.2 Sources of potential unnecessary regulatory burdens
3.3 What is best practice regulation?
3.4 Objective-based regulation versus prescriptive regulation
3.5 Costs of regulation - Chapter 4 Regulatory overview (PDF - 1333 Kb)
4.1 Historical development of the existing framework
4.2 Current legislative arrangements
4.3 Regulators and other relevant bodies
4.4 Recent Commonwealth, State and Territory reviews
4.5 International treaties and obligations - Chapter 5 Resource management and land access (PDF - 394 Kb)
5.1 Resource management
5.2 Land access - Chapter 6 Environment and heritage (PDF - 346 Kb)
6.1 Overview of environmental regulation
6.2 Key regulatory requirements and processes
6.3 Sources of unnecessary regulatory burden - Chapter 7 Occupational health and safety (PDF - 308 Kb)
7.1 Offshore OHS regulation
7.2 Onshore OHS regulation - Chapter 8 What impact are impediments having? (PDF - 276 Kb)
8.1 Evidence of unnecessary regulatory burdens
8.2 Inter-jurisdictional comparisons
8.3 Economic costs
8.4 Impact on investment attractiveness - Chapter 9 Models for a national regulator (PDF - 330 Kb)
9.1 Issues with the current framework
9.2 Models for assigning regulatory functions
9.3 Assessment of institutional reform options
9.4 Cost recovery arrangements - Chapter 10 A way forward (PDF - 280 Kb)
10.1 Implementing best practice regulation
10.2 Reshaping the regulatory architecture
10.3 Concluding remarks - Appendix A Public consultation (PDF - 161 Kb)
- Appendix B List of legislation (PDF - 149 Kb)
- Appendix C International comparisons (PDF - 183 Kb)
C.1 Introducing flexibility with negotiation-based regulation
C.2 A cooperative multi-jurisdictional framework - Appendix D Summary of environmental and heritage requirements (PDF - 232 Kb)
D.1 Principles of environmental regulation
D.2 Requirements under the EPBC Act
D.3 State and Territory environmental regulation
D.4 Heritage regulation
D.5 Environmental offsets - Appendix E Estimating the economic cost of approval delays (PDF - 187 Kb)
E.1 Design
E.2 Data
E.3 Potential for further development - References (PDF - 217 Kb)
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