The Protection of the Environment legislation Amendment Act 2011 introduced several changes to the
Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997 (POEO Act) including the new requirement that holders
of an environment protection licence (‘licensees’) make their pollution monitoring data publicly available in
a timely manner. The intention of this new requirement is to improve the general public’s access to
information about the environmental performance of licensed facilities. Licensees are required to publish the
pollution monitoring data that has been collected as a result of a licence condition, in accordance with
section 66(6) of the POEO Act and written requirements issued by the EPA.