Environmental Protection Authority - Te Mana Rauhi Taiao

The Environmental Protection Authority - Te Mana Rauhi Taiao, is New Zealand’s national environmental regulator. Our aim is to protect people and the environment by delivering robust, objective decisions on environmental matters, and ensuring compliance with rules. Our main activities are: Regulating pesticides, industrial and household chemicals, new organisms, ozone-depleting chemicals, and certain hazardous waste controlled by international agreements. Regulating activities in New Zealand’s Extended Economic Zone and Continental Shelf, such as seismic surveying, oil and mineral exploration. Administering nationally significant proposals, such as applications for national highway construction. Administering the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme.