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Legislation was before the Parliament in November 2010 making it an offence to import any products of illegally harvested timber, as well as a code of conduct requiring suppliers who first place timber into the Australian market to carry out proper tests to ensure wood entering the country is legal, which will be supported by the use of a trade description to give consumers confidence that they are purchasing legal wood

A policy has been put in place to address the profitability and sustainability of Australian fisheries by stopping overfishing, allowing overfished stocks to recover, and promoting the longer term profitability of the fishing industry as well as by preventing, deterring and eliminating illegal fishing and unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing

Specific budgetary assistance to the mining sector was delivered through the National Low Emissions Coal Initiative, with minimal amounts channelled through the Renewable Energy Development Initiative

A National Strategy on Energy Efficiency is being implemented and renewable power generation has been the focus of government policy and assistance to the sector

New programmes in the automotive sector remain focused on innovation and development of more environmentally friendly products, while the New Car Plan for a Greener Future has assisted the industry to prepare for a low- carbon future and to further orientate to global markets and supply chains

Several projects implemented in the land freight sector led to significant positive environmental impacts