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NATIONAL ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION COUNCIL - COMMUNIQUE - 16 September 2011 Air quality, packaging on environment ministers’ agenda Environment Ministers today agreed to work together to take a fresh look at Australia’s air quality. Chaired by Australian Government Environment Minister Tony Burke, the council comprises environment ministers from all states and territories. The council agreed to release the review of the National Environment Protection (Ambient Air Quality) Measure, and noted that the review’s recommendations will beprioritised and responded to through the development of the National Plan for Clean Air. The new National Plan for Clean Air will provide a robust framework for identifying cost effective emission reduction actions, and implementation arrangements. Packaging waste was also on the council’s agenda. Ministers approved the making of the National Environment Protection (Used Packaging Materials) Measure 2011, which supports the Australian Packaging Covenant in its actions to reduce the environmental impacts of packaging. For more information: 02 6275 9880 If you have received this transmission in error please notify us immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies. If this e-mail or any attachments have been sent to you in error, that error does not constitute waiver of any confidentiality, privilege or copyright in respect of information in the e-mail or attachments. Please consider the environment before printing this email. ******************************************************************************** This email, including any attachments sent with it, is confidential and for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). This confidentiality is not waived or lost, if you receive it and you are not the intended recipient(s), or if it is transmitted/received in error. Any unauthorised use, alteration, disclosure, distribution or review of this email is strictly prohibited. The information contained in this email, including any attachment sent with it, may be subject to a statutory duty of confidentiality if it relates to health service matters. If you are not the intended recipient(s), or if you have received this email in error, you are asked to immediately notify the sender by telephone collect on Australia +61 1800 198 175 or by return email. You should also delete this email, and any copies, from your computer system network and destroy any hard copies produced. If not an intended recipient of this email, you must not copy, distribute or take any action(s) that relies on it; any form of disclosure, modification, distribution and/or publication of this email is also prohibited. Although Queensland Health takes all reasonable steps to ensure this email does not contain malicious software, Queensland Health does not accept responsibility for the consequences if any person's computer inadvertently suffers any disruption to services, loss of information, harm or is infected with a virus, other malicious computer programme or code that may occur as a consequence of receiving this email. Unless stated otherwise, this email represents only the views of the sender and not the views of the Queensland Government. **********************************************************************************
