Our regulatory framework: Enable

We can better protect the environment by enabling communities to meet their legal obligations, improve their environmental performance and protect, restore and enhance the environment.

We assist people to understand what they need to do to help protect the environment and human health and why that is important for the people of NSW, now and in the future.

For example:

• We assist people, industry, organisations and government to understand what they need to do to protect, restore and enhance the environment.
• We enable the protection or restoration of the environment through grants.
• We support the regulated community and co-regulators through capacity building and training.
• We assist the regulated community to improve compliance, particularly with requirements that are new or are not well understood.
• We share data and information with the community, our co-regulators, government and research organisations to support activities that protect the environment and human health.
• We provide feedback to the regulated community to help them improve their environmental performance.

Examples of how we enable

• Assist to comply
• Guidance. For example:
  • plastics phase-outs guidance for industry
  • Noise Guide for Local Government
  • Approved Methods for the Sampling and Analysis of Water Pollutants in New South Wales
  • Statutory guidelines for contaminated land
  • waste classification guidelines
• Advisory letters
• Support responsible behaviours
• Share data and information. For example:
  • SEED the NSW whole of government data repository
  • AELERT – Australasian Environmental Law Enforcement and Regulators Network
• Feedback from compliance campaigns
• Grants