✨ National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management
4 JULY 2014 NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 71 2001
CA. NATIONAL OBJECTIVES FRAMEWORK
Objective CA1
To provide an approach to establish freshwater objectives for national values, and any other values, that:
a. is nationally consistent; and
b. recognises regional and local circumstances.
Policy CA1
By every regional council identifying freshwater management units that include all freshwater bodies within its region.
Policy CA2
By every regional council applying the following processes in developing freshwater objectives for all freshwater management units:
a. considering all national values and how they apply to local and regional circumstances;
b. identifying the values for each freshwater management unit, which
i. must include the compulsory values; and
ii. may include any other national values or other values that the regional council considers appropriate (in either case having regard to local and regional circumstances);
c. identifying:
i. for the compulsory values or any other national value for which relevant attributes are provided in Appendix 2:
A. the attributes listed in Appendix 2 that are applicable to each value identified under Policy CA2(b) for the freshwater body type; and
B. any other attributes that the regional council considers appropriate for each value identified under Policy CA2(b) for the freshwater body type; and
ii. for any national value for which relevant attributes are not provided in Appendix 2 or any other value, the attributes that the regional council considers appropriate for each value identified under Policy CA2(b) for the freshwater body type;
d. for those attributes specified in Appendix 2, assigning an attribute state at or above the minimum acceptable state for that attribute;
e. formulating freshwater objectives:
i. in those cases where an applicable numeric attribute state is specified in Appendix 2, in numeric terms by reference to that specified numeric attribute state; or
ii. in those cases where the attribute is not listed in Appendix 2, in numeric terms where practicable, otherwise in narrative terms; and
iii. on the basis that, where an attribute applies to more than one value, the most stringent freshwater objective for that attribute is adopted; and
f. considering the following matters at all relevant points in the process described in Policy CA2(a)-(e):
i. the current state of the freshwater management unit, and its anticipated future state on the basis of past and current resource use;
ii. the spatial scale at which freshwater management units are defined;
iii. the limits that would be required to achieve the freshwater objectives;
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