The Regional Pest Management Plan (RPMP, or Pest Plan) is a regulatory document that sets out rules and requirements for ORC and land occupiers to manage specified pests. The Biosecurity Strategy sits alongside the RPMP and provides higher-level guidance and integration and can be more adaptive and responsive while still setting out leadership for the region.

The Biosecurity Strategy brings together ORC’s statutory and non-statutory functions. It helps us address things that are not covered in the Pest Plan’s framework like monitoring, surveillance, research, incursion responses and collaborative action.

The Strategy was developed in tandem with the review of the Pest Plan, a process which began in 2017. The strategy had input and feedback from key interested parties, stakeholders and the public. We consulted on the RPMP and Biosecurity Strategy in November of 2018 and the final strategy was signed off by Council on 27 September 2019.