discussing the various details of the performance and extent of compliance
by the consent holder/s during the period under review, this report also assigns a
rating as to each Company’s environmental and administrative performance.
Environmental performance is concerned with actual or likely effects on the
receiving environment from the activities during the monitoring year.
Administrative performance is concerned with the Company’s approach to
demonstrating consent compliance in site operations
Section 42A report for the Coastal Plan hearing
Officers report on decisions requested - Proposed Coastal Plan for Taranaki
against a number of
different defendants.
An analysis of the prosecutions is provided in terms of:
sectors and general activities
individual local authority prosecution rates
the outcomes of prosecutions including the number of unsuccessful prosecutions
fine level in relation to financial position of defendants
culpability of defendants (i.e. the deliberateness of the offence)
the use of sentencing options
the average fines
awards of costs
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considered to be outside the scope of the baseline monitoring programme, however where
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this related directly to relevant consent conditions and/or there are resultant changes to the baseline
monitoring programme, they have been included in this report.
STDC demonstrated a high level of administrative compliance with its resource consents. No rating is given
for environmental effects as none of the consents included in this programme have been exercised.
For
(that is a defence under the
provisions of the RMA can be established) may be excluded with regard to the performance rating applied.
For example loss of data due to a flood destroying deployed field equipment.
The categories used by the Council for this monitoring period, and their interpretation, are as follows:
Environmental Performance
High: No or inconsequential (short-term duration, less than minor in severity) breaches of consent or
regional plan parameters resulting from the
Coastal Plan submissions M-R