Murray-Darling Basin Agreement - Schedule C

Final Version approved by MDBMC Meeting 32 - 1 November 2002

BASIN SALINITY MANAGEMENT STRATEGY 2001-2015
MINISTERIAL COUNCIL RESOLUTION

At Meeting 32 - 1 November 2002, the Murray-Darling Basin Ministerial Council:

  1. noted that on 28 August 2001, the Ministerial Council agreed to release the Basin Salinity Management Strategy 2001-2015 (the "Strategy") as an appropriate measure under the Agreement to respond to threats which salinity poses to water quality, environmental values, regional infrastructure and productive agricultural land;
  2. noted its wish to provide for elements of the Strategy to be implemented through measures set out in a Schedule to the Agreement;

  3. accordingly, resolved under sub-clause 50(6) of the Agreement:

    1. to amend Schedule C of the Agreement by omitting the heading "Salinity and Drainage Strategy" and clauses 1 to 20 and including in their place the heading and clauses set out in Attachment A; and

    2. to amend Schedule E of the Agreement by omitting the heading "Salinity and Drainage Strategy" immediately before clause 9 and including in its place the heading "Basin Salinity Management Strategy";

  4. agreed under sub-clause 3(2) of Schedule D, that Schedule C, as amended by item c(i) of this resolution, applies to the State of Queensland to the extent set out in the latter Schedule; and
  5. noted the obligation imposed on Contracting Governments by paragraph 6(b) of the Agreement to lay before the Houses of their respective Parliaments any Schedule to this Agreement approved by the Ministerial Council from time to time.