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• Customs Amendment (Anti-dumping Measures) Bill (No. 1) 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Feb 2015 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Industry and Science 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Customs Tariff (Anti-Dumping) Amendment Bill 2015, the bill amends the

  Customs Act 1901

  to: reduce deadlines for submissions to the Anti-Dumping Commission in response to dumping and subsidisation investigations; require anti-dumping notices to be published electronically; consolidate lodgement provisions for anti-dumping applications and submissions; clarify the length of the investigation period in anti-dumping matters, cumulative assessment of injury, normal value provisions, the calculation of the dumping margin, material injury determinations, effective notice periods, and the definition of a subsidy; provide that the minister is not required to have regard to the lesser duty rule where a country has not submitted a notification of its subsidies; introduce a fee and raise procedural and legal thresholds for applications to review anti-dumping decisions; streamline merits review processes of the Anti-Dumping Review Panel; and abolish the International Trade Remedies Forum. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Customs Tariff (Anti-Dumping) Amendment Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Feb 2015 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Industry and Science 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Customs Amendment (Anti-dumping Measures) Bill (No. 1) 2015, the bill amends the

  Customs Tariff (Anti-Dumping) Act 1975

  to: require anti-dumping notices to be published electronically; provide that the minister is not required to have regard to the lesser duty rule where a country has not submitted a notification of its subsidies; and clarify that the minister may grant exemptions from dumping duty with limited retrospective effect. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Regulatory Levies) Amendment (Miscellaneous Matters) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Feb 2015 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Industry and Science 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Amendment (Miscellaneous Matters) Bill 2015, the bill amends the

  Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Regulatory Levies) Act 2003

  to: enable the National Offshore Petroleum Titles Administrator to collect an annual titles administration levy in relation to boundary-change petroleum exploration permits; and replace references to ‘OHS inspectors’ with ‘NOPSEMA inspectors’. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Amendment (Miscellaneous Matters) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Feb 2015 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Industry and Science 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Regulatory Levies) Amendment (Miscellaneous Matters) Bill 2015, the bill amends the

  Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006

  to: automatically grant or extend the coverage of offshore petroleum titles over blocks moving from state or Northern Territory coastal waters into Commonwealth jurisdiction as a result of a change to the boundary; provide arrangements for the granting of renewals of Commonwealth titles over blocks remaining in Commonwealth waters, where part of that title has moved into state or Northern Territory coastal waters as a result of a change to the boundary; separate the requirements for conferral of petroleum and greenhouse gas functions on the National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA); enable the recovery of costs for regulatory operations undertaken by NOPSEMA in waters landward of the territorial sea baseline; and make technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Regulatory Levies) Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Dec 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Industry, Innovation and Science 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Amendment (Cross-boundary Greenhouse Gas Titles and Other Measures) Bill 2019, the bill amends the

  Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Regulatory Levies) Act 2003

  to: provide that the greenhouse gas related provisions of the Act and regulations apply, and are taken to have always applied, to the states and the Northern Territory; and make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Amendment (Cross-boundary Greenhouse Gas Titles and Other Measures) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Dec 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Industry, Innovation and Science 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Regulatory Levies) Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2019, the bill amends the

  Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006

  to: provide for the grant and administration of single greenhouse gas (GHG) titles that straddle the boundary between Commonwealth waters and state or Northern Territory (NT) coastal waters; enable unification of adjacent Commonwealth GHG titles; and strengthen and clarify the powers of National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority inspectors during oil pollution emergencies. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Intellectual Property Laws Amendment (Productivity Commission Response Part 2 and Other Measures) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 Jul 2019 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Industry, Innovation and Science 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Patents Act 1990

  to: introduce an objects clause; phase out the innovation patent system; replace the 'reasonable requirements of the public' test in relation to applications for a compulsory licence with a public interest test; provide that only the patentee of a dependent patent can seek a compulsory licence over the use of the original patent; provide for 'omnibus claims' in patent specifications to be removed at stages of consideration subsequent to examination; clarify the Commissioner of Patents' power to redact sensitive information from patent documents; remove the requirement to file a certificate of verification for documents translated into English, unless required by the regulations; clarify that Crown use can be invoked for the provision of a service that any Commonwealth, state or territory government has the primary responsibility for providing or funding; require governments to seek negotiated outcomes with patent owners before invoking Crown use; and require ministerial authorisation for invoking Crown use if a negotiated outcome is unsuccessful or in emergency situations;

  Designs Act 2003

  to modify provisions relating to Crown use consistently with the changes to the

  Patents Act 1990

  ; and

  Patents Act 1990

  and

  Trade Marks Act 1995

  to enable the Patent Office and Trade Mark Office to keep and use their official seal in electronic form when supplying electronic certified copies of documents to customers. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Regulatory Levies) Amendment Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 Jul 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Industry, Innovation and Science 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Amendment (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill 2019, the bill amends the

  Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Regulatory Levies) Act 2003

  to: enable the National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA) to recover the costs of its oversight of well operations under greenhouse gas titles by imposing a well investigation levy, an annual well levy and a well activity levy in relation to greenhouse gas wells; impose the well activity levy on submission of a five-yearly revision of a well operations management plan and remove the levy imposed on applications for approval to commence well activities; clarify that it is a compliance investigation under the

  Regulatory Powers (Standard Provisions) Act 2014

  in relation to which a safety investigation levy or well investigation levy may be imposed; remove certain spent provisions; and remove references to specific titles of regulations, and instead enable references to the titles or provisions of regulations to be prescribed by regulations under the Act. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Amendment (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 Jul 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Industry, Innovation and Science 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Regulatory Levies) Amendment Bill 2019, the bill amends the

  Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006

  to: transfer regulatory responsibility for offshore greenhouse gas wells and environmental management from the minister to the National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA); strengthen and clarify the powers of NOPSEMA inspectors to monitor and enforce compliance by regulated entities with their obligations under the Act and associated regulations; ensure valid designation of certain areas as 'frontier areas' for the purposes of the Designated Frontier Area tax incentive; make minor policy and technical amendments in relation to the operation of the Act; and remove references to specific titles of regulations, and instead enable references to the titles or provisions of regulations to be prescribed by regulations under the Act. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Customs Amendment (Anti-Dumping Measures) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Sep 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Industry, Innovation and Science 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Customs Act 1901

  to: specify additional methodologies by which the minister may determine an export price during a review of anti-dumping measures for exporters who have not exported goods, or have exported low volumes of goods such that the export price cannot be reliably determined, during the period examined for the purpose of the review. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum