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Compliance and Enforcement Policy

EPA has a new Compliance and Enforcement Policy. The policy is a direct response to recommendations from the Compliance and Enforcement Review undertaken late 2010.
All effective regulators are backed by clear cut policies regarding the two basic regulatory functions of compliance and enforcement.

The Policy provides EPA with the framework to be able to say to business and the community when it will and will not do things – it is essentially a rule book on how EPA will exercise its discretion around compliance and enforcement.

As a result of the new policy, EPA’s actions will be more consistent and predictable. Business and the community will know what to expect from EPA.

 

Compliance and Enforcement Review

EPA Victoria is on a journey to become a modern environmental regulator that meets the aspirations of the Victorian community.

The transformation to a modern regulator will enable the authority to be targeted, transparent, effective and most of all accountable.

In 2009 and 2010 EPA was the subject of external reviews that found its regulatory approach inadequate. In order to improve its effectiveness and prepare for a more challenging future, EPA committed to an extensive review of its compliance and enforcement activities.

EPA commissioned Stan Krpan, the former Director of Legal Services and Investigations at WorkSafe Victoria (Victoria’s Health and Safety regulator) to conduct this independent review.
The review involved a comprehensive assessment of how EPA educates and supports duty-holders to comply with the law and how it enforces against those that don’t.

Following the most extensive consultation program in EPA’s history, Stan Krpan delivered his 450 page report to the Chairman and CEO of EPA on 31 December 2010.

In February 2011 the review was made publically available and included 119 recommendations. EPA is systematically working through these recommendations and they are due to all be completed by 30 June 2015.

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