to the views of local communities and persons materially affected by the management of environmental water. South Australia has developed a LTWP for the River Murray. South Australia has commenced development of a LTWP for the Eastern Mount Lofty Ranges and South Australian Murray Region. 9) For New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia has provided the Milestone met. South Australia only, the state has Commonwealth with a description of provided a brief description of supply supply measure projects for which business measure projects for which feasibility cases are being developed for consideration and business cases are being under the SDL adjustment mechanism. developed for consideration under the SDL adjustment mechanism. Bridging the gap Removal of barriers The Basin Plan water trading rules came into effect on 1 July 2014. The department is aware that the MDBA has previously raised a number of issues with South Australia that relate to matters covered under Milestone 6(a), including through correspondence of 25 June 2015 and 18 December 2015. The MDBA advises that correspondence and negotiations between the MDBA and South Australia in 2016 led to a pathway and the resolution of trade restrictions where they may have been inconsistent with the Basin Plan Water Trading Rules. Australia stated that surface water trade within a regulated system, between regulated systems or within an unregulated system is free of any restriction on changing the location at which water can be taken, and is not subject to any volumetric limit, except for defined allowable restrictions (SA Government 2016). Restrictions on trade Australia stated that in 2015–16 it did not introduce any restrictions or suspensions on the trade of water access entitlements (SA Government 2016). The MDBA has confirmed that it is not aware of any new restrictions that were introduced in 2015–16 in South Australia that are inconsistent with the Basin Plan. Actions to impede Commonwealth water acquisitions The department is not aware of any instances in which South Australia had taken action to impede Commonwealth measures to acquire water for environmental purposes during 2015–16. Processing times for trades Australia stated that it had met the agreed processing times for each water entitlement and allocation trade to which the Commonwealth was a party during the reporting period (SA Government 2016). These findings are supported by data publicly available from South Australia’s water trade reporting website.
to the views of local communities and persons materially affected by the management of environmental water. South Australia has developed a LTWP for the River Murray. South Australia has commenced development of a LTWP for the Eastern Mount Lofty Ranges and South Australian Murray Region. 9) For New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia only, the state has provided a brief description of supply measure projects for which feasibility and business cases are being developed for consideration under the SDL adjustment mechanism. South Australia has provided the Commonwealth with a description of supply measure projects for which business cases are being developed for consideration under the SDL adjustment mechanism. Milestone met. Bridging the gap Removal of barriers The Basin Plan water trading rules came into effect on 1 July 2014. The department is aware that the MDBA has previously raised a number of issues with South Australia that relate to matters covered under Milestone 6(a), including through correspondence of 25 June 2015 and 18 December 2015. The MDBA advises that correspondence and negotiations between the MDBA and South Australia in 2016 led to a pathway and the resolution of trade restrictions where they may have been inconsistent with the Basin Plan Water Trading Rules. Australia stated that surface water trade within a regulated system, between regulated systems or within an unregulated system is free of any restriction on changing the location at which water can be taken, and is not subject to any volumetric limit, except for defined allowable restrictions (SA Government 2016). Restrictions on trade Australia stated that in 2015–16 it did not introduce any restrictions or suspensions on the trade of water access entitlements (SA Government 2016). The MDBA has confirmed that it is not aware of any new restrictions that were introduced in 2015–16 in South Australia that are inconsistent with the Basin Plan. Actions to impede Commonwealth water acquisitions The department is not aware of any instances in which South Australia had taken action to impede Commonwealth measures to acquire water for environmental purposes during 2015–16. Processing times for trades Australia stated that it had met the agreed processing times for each water entitlement and allocation trade to which the Commonwealth was a party during the reporting period (SA Government 2016). These findings are supported by data publicly available from South Australia’s water trade reporting website.