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COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

 

List of Specimens taken to be Suitable for Live Import Amendment

(Fourteen species of dung beetle) Instrument 2023

 

I, Tanya Plibersek, Minister for the Environment and Water, pursuant to subparagraph 303EC(1)(a)(i) of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, and having considered a report prepared for the purpose of paragraph 303EC(5)(a) of that Act, make the following amendments by including in Part 1 of the List of Specimens Taken to be Suitable for Live Import (29/11/2001) under the heading ‘Invertebrate Animals’, ‘Anthropods (Anthropoda)’ in the appropriate alphabetic position:

 

 

Taxon

Common Name

Ateuchetus laticollis

dung beetle

Cheironitis scabrosus

dung beetle

Copris incertus

dung beetle

Copris integer

dung beetle

Copris lunaris

dung beetle

Euoniticellus triangulatus

dung beetle

Geotrupes stercorarius

dung beetle

Gymnopleurus humanus

dung beetle

Onitis minutus

dung beetle

Onthophagus medius

dung beetle

Onthophagus nuchicornis

dung beetle

Onthophagus opacicollis

dung beetle

Scarabaeus sacer

dung beetle

Sisyphus schaefferi

dung beetle

 

This instrument commences the day after registration.

 

 

Dated:      4.10.23

 

 

 

…………………………………………..

TANYA PLIBERSEK

Minister for the Environment and Water