Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) The Council may, by instrument in writing, make a measure, to be known as a national environment protection measure, that relates to any one or more of the following:
(a) ambient air quality;
(b) ambient marine, estuarine and fresh water quality;
(c) the protection of amenity in relation to noise (but only if differences in environmental requirements relating to noise would have an adverse effect on national markets for goods and services);
(d) general guidelines for the assessment of site contamination;
(e) environmental impacts associated with hazardous wastes;
(f) the re - use and recycling of used materials;
(g) except as provided in subsection ( 2), motor vehicle noise and emissions.
(2) Noise and emission standards relating to the design, construction and technical characteristics of new and in - service motor vehicles may only:
(a) be developed and agreed in conjunction with the National Transport Commission; and
(b) be determined in accordance with the National Transport Commission Act 2003 and, where appropriate, the Road Vehicle Standards Act 2018 .
(3) National environment protection measures must each comprise one or more of the following:
(a) a national environment protection standard;
(b) a national environment protection goal;
(c) a national environment protection guideline;
(d) a national environment protection protocol.