Links to Commonwealth Agencies

The following list of Commonwealth agencies with appropriate links, provides an indication of approvals, assistance or policy issues project proponents may encounter.  It is based on the experience of current and previous MPF projects across different project proposals and industry sectors. It should not be interpreted as being exhaustive. 

Agency	Approval or assistance or issue of involvement summary	Website link
Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry	Quarantine issues associated with importing plant equipment, modular assemblies, etc	Quarantine in Australia
Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism	Regulation of offshore petroleum activities	Upstream Petroleum
	Off shore resources taxation	Resources Taxation Legislation
	Assisting the resources sector to develop internationally competitive and sustainable industries.	Resources Programs
	The Australian Government is in the process of developing legislation to enable CCS activity in Commonwealth offshore waters	Carbon Dioxide Capture and Geological Storage
	Programs aimed at managing energy use and driving large-scale uptake of clean energy technologies	Energy Programs
	National energy market reform	Energy Markets
Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts	Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act approvals	Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act
	Requirements of the (Sea Dumping) Act 1981	Marine Pollution Control
	Requirements of the Sea Installations Act 1987	Sea installations
	Commonwealth marine protected areas	Commonwealth marine protected areas
	Support programs for the renewable energy sector	Renewable energy
Department of Defence	Access issues associated with defence training land, defence exclusion zones, etc	Infrastructure Division
Department of Treasury	Foreign Investment approval and regulation	Foreign Investment Review Board
Department of Immigration and Citizenship	Requirements for sponsoring skilled people to work in Australia.	Visas, Immigration and Refugees
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission Australian Energy Regulator	Third party access arrangements to certain regulated industries including electricity, gas and transport networks	For regulated industries
	Electricity transmission guidelines	Electricity transmission guidelines
	Regulation of gas and electricity transmission	Regulation
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority	Applications to undertake activities in the Great Barrier Marine Park	Environmental Impact Assessment Process
Attorney Generals Department Critical Infrastructure Protection Branch Australian Customs and Border Protection Service	Legal and policy advice role on Native Title issues	Native title
	Australian Government policy relating to protection of Australia's critical infrastructure	Critical Infrastructure Protection
	Australian customs requirements and tariff concession orders	general imports
Department of Education, Employment and Work Place Relations Work Place Authority	Australian workplace relations	Australia's new Workplace Relation System
	Opportunities for involving indigenous people in the private sector	Indigenous Programs
	Australias workplace relations advice and lodgement of workplace agreements	Workplace Authority
National Offshore Petroleum Safety Authority	Administration of offshore petroleum safety legislation	Welcome to NOPSA!
Department of Innovation, Industry and Science AusIndustry	Tariff duty concessions on eligible capital goods for major investment projects in eligible industry sectors	Enhanced Project By-law Scheme (EPBS)
	Introduction to other Ausindustry grants and programs	All AusIndustry Programs
Industry Capability Network 1	ICN assists project developers and buyers by putting them in contact with competitive local businesses.	Industry Capability Network
Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government Office of Transport Security	Maritime security regime to help safeguard Australia's maritime transport system and offshore facilities.	Maritime Security
	Safeguarding Australia's offshore oil and gas supplies.	Offshore Oil and Gas Security

1. Independently managed network primarily funded by the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research.