The Australasian Environmental Law Enforcement and Regulators Network (AELERT) is a network of environmental regulatory agencies. Its aim is to build relationships between jurisdictions to facilitate the sharing of information and improve the regulatory compliance capacity of member agencies. It also seeks to develop national standards for training and best practice in environmental regulation.
Full Membership of AELERT is open to any Government agency in Australasia with environmental regulatory responsibilities. As an AELERT member, agencies can access nationally accredited training packages (Certificate IV in Statutory Compliance and Certificate IV in Investigations) that have been customized to enhance their practical application to the environmental regulator.
To find out more about AELERT initiatives and how your environmental regulatory agency can become a member, please visit the AELERT Charter, Background and Organisational Structure pages. The Links page on this website will be progressively enhanced to provide members with a greater range of resources from national and international regulatory agencies.
February 5th, 2010
On Thursday, 28 January 2010, the Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts (DEWHA), in partnership with Interpol Canberra, held an Australian Government Inter-Agency meeting to enhance international coordination and support for Environmental Enforcement.
The meeting included presentations by:
• Grant Pink – DEWHA,
• Rob Blount – Interpol: Australia’s National Central Bureau (a part of the Australian Federal […]
January 11th, 2010
The AELERT Steering Committee has endorsed “Diversity in Environmental Regulatory Responses” as the theme for this year’s conference. The aim is to showcase the positive outcomes and responses that AELERT Member Agencies have achieved; at the same time as linking in as part of the International Year of Biodiversity.
A conference website will soon be […]
December 10th, 2009
On 1 December 2009 the Australian Government Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts (DEWHA) adopted a new Compliance and Enforcement Policy.
The new policy provides the department with a robust compliance and enforcement framework in order to help ensure its C&E activities are undertaken in a transparent and consistent manner. Relative to […]
