14 October 2008
Since notifying the decision on the reassessment of 1080 (application number HRE05002) last August, a number of minor errors in the wording of the decision document came to light.
Under section 67A of the HSNO Act, the Authority may amend an approval if it considers that the alteration is minor in effect or corrects a minor or technical error. As a result, a number of amendments have been approved by the committee.
Please note that minor amendment applications are not publicly notified and are not open for submission.
The amendments made to the decision are as follows (page numbers refer to the formal decision document):
- Insertion of approval number HRE000001 for the peanut-based 1080 product (page 147).
- Approved handler exception for pilots reinstated (refer to controls T6 and E7 on page 164) which was previously included as a control in a Gazetted amendment to the 1080 controls made in June 2006, but omitted from the recent reassessment decision in error.
- Control T8 (page 166) was amended to clarify that signage must remain in place either for a minimum of 6 months after the last date of application (of toxic bait); or, until the substance and any carcass is no longer toxic; or, until the substance and any carcass is retrieved.
- The trigger level for control PG2 (page 176) was amended and reads 0.5kg/0.1L instead of 0.5kg.
- All the substances covered by the P3/PS4 control are only listed under PS4 not P3 and the limited quantity substances given for PG2 and PG3 have been added to PS4 (page 177).
- Additional control 3 (page 182) was amended to clarify that any person purchasing or acquiring the substance must hold a license in accordance with Additional Control 5.
- Previously Control 6(2)(a) (page 184) overrode the narrative given in Paragraph 11.6.7 (page 112). The control specifies that notification must be made no more than 2 months prior to the operation; whereas the narrative suggests that notification must be placed at least 2 months before the operation. The narrative in Paragraph 11.6.7 was amended to ensure consistency with control 6(2)(a).
- Additional control 12 (page 187) referred to additional control 13. This was deleted as there is no such control.
The amended version of the decision
can be
found here
The amended version of the decision with changes tracked
can be found here.
NB: additions are in blue and deletions are in red.
To view a copy of the controls document,
click here
Further information on 1080 can be found
click here
For further information contact:
Mike Morris, Reassessments Manager, ERMA New Zealand.
Telephone +64 4 918 4798
Facsimile +64 4 914 0433
Email:
michael.morris@ermanz.govt.nz