Environmental Regulations
All businesses need to comply with New Zealand's environmental laws and regulations. New Zealand’s environmental laws set high standards for protecting the environment from adverse effects, and failing to comply with them is potentially very serious.
The following is a summary of your compliance with Resource Management Act regulations:
- Preparing an environmental impact report
- Filing a resource consent application
- Dealing with objections to a consent application
- Having your case heard in the Environment Court
- Paying for a Regional Council assessment of your consent application
- Paying for a Regional Council “inspection” of any sort