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Kyoto Protocol Ratification Bill 2003 [No. 2]

Information about the Bill

The Senate has referred this bill to the Committee for inquiry and report by 4March 2004.

The purpose of the bill is to require the Government to ratify the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change within 60 days of the Act's commencement and to require compliance with a number of related measures.

Submissions

The Committee invites written submissions from interested individuals and organisations preferably in electronic form sent by email to ecita.sen@aph.gov.au. The email must include full postal address and contact details.

Alternatively, submissions may be sent to The Secretary, Senate Environment, Communications, Information Technology and the Arts Legislation Committee, Parliament House, CANBERRA ACT 2600, or faxed to 02 6277 5818.

Submissions must be received by no later than Friday, 30 January 2004.

The terms of the bill and related explanatory material are available via the link below and notes on preparing submissions are available on the Committee's web site at www.aph.gov.au/committee/wit_sub or by contacting the Committee secretariat as follows: phone:02 6277 3526, fax: 02 6277 5818 or email: ecita.sen@aph.gov.au

Submissions become committee documents and are made public only after a decision by the Committee. Persons making submissions must not release them without the approval of the Committee. Submissions are covered by parliamentary privilege but the unauthorised release of them is not.

Submissions received

Public Hearings

13 February 2004 Canberra Program (Word format) Transcript (PDF format)

Report - Tabled 25 March 2004

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