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Proposal to Remake the Primary TV Services Declaration
Open Date	04 May 2020
Close Date	10 July 2020
Agency	Australian Communications and Media Authority
Description	You are invited to comment on the proposal to remake the Broadcasting Services (Primary Commercial Television Broadcasting Service) Declaration, which is due to sunset on 1 October 2020. The ACMA is seeking comments from the public regarding remaking the legislative instrument without any significant changes, on the basis that it is operating effectively and efficiently.
Full Details	Proposal to Remake the Primary TV Services Declaration

Arrangements for Jamming Devices and Radiocommunications Device Exemptions
Open Date	18 May 2020
Close Date	13 July 2020
Agency	Australian Communications and Media Authority
Description	You are invited to comment on the Radiocommunications and Exemptions Framework. The ACMA is seeking industry, government, and consumer feedback on emerging technologies, changing policy and operational needs and the impact of the framework on their activities.
Full Details	Arrangements for Jamming Devices and Radiocommunications Device Exemptions

Regulatory Treatment of Inflation
Open Date	25 May 2020
Close Date	15 July 2020
Agency	Australian Energy Regulator
Description	You are invited to comment on the discussion paper on the regulatory treatment of inflation. The discussion paper explores how expected inflation is used in the Australian Energy Regulator's regulatory framework. Expected inflation is used to model future electricity and gas revenues.
Full Details	Regulatory Treatment of Inflation

Proposed New Part 121 MOS - Australian Air Transport Operations - Larger Aeroplanes
Open Date	16 June 2020
Close Date	16 July 2020
Agency	Civil Aviation Safety Authority
Description	You are invited to comment on the proposed new Part 121 of the Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998 - Australian air transport operations - larger aeroplanes, and its Manual of Standards (MOS) that will contain the specific safety rules for air transport operations in larger aeroplanes. CASA is seeking feedback on the proposed amendments to Part 121 regulations and tranche 1 of the proposed Part 121 MOS.
Full Details	Proposed New Part 121 MOS - Australian Air Transport Operations - Larger Aeroplanes

Superfast Broadband Network Class Exemption and Deemed Functional Separation Undertaking
Open Date	05 June 2020
Close Date	17 July 2020
Agency	Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
Description	You are invited to comment on the draft instrument for the exemption for small networks including the class of persons to whom it should apply and any other conditions and limitations, the nature and extent of potential functional separation provisions for the deemed undertakings and the classes of corporations to which deemed undertakings should apply.
Full Details	Superfast Broadband Network Class Exemption and Deemed Functional Separation Undertaking

Exposure Draft of Radiocommunications Legislation Amendment (Reform and Modernisation) Bill
Open Date	24 June 2020
Close Date	17 July 2020
Agency	Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications
Description	You are invited to comment on the exposure draft of radiocommunications legislation amendment (reform and modernisation) bill, which looks to update and streamline the Act by removing unnecessary prescription and legislative barriers.
Full Details	Exposure Draft of Radiocommunications Legislation Amendment (Reform and Modernisation) Bill

Draft Explanatory Statement - Spirit Manufacturing
Open Date	23 June 2020
Close Date	20 July 2020
Agency	Australian Taxation Office
Description	You are invited to comment on the Draft Explanatory Statement, which looks to introduce an instrument to identify circumstances in which spirit produced by blending spirits is not taken to constitute the manufacture of that spirit under the Excise Act.
Full Details	Draft Explanatory Statement - Spirit Manufacturing

EXC 2020/D1 - Spirit Manufacturing
Open Date	22 June 2020
Close Date	20 July 2020
Agency	Australian Taxation Office
Description	Excise (Spirit blending exemptions) Determination 2020 (No. 1)
Full Details	EXC 2020/D1 - Spirit Manufacturing

TPRE 2020/D2
Open Date	14 May 2020
Close Date	23 July 2020
Agency	Australian Taxation Office
Description	Draft Taxation Administration Excluded Classes of Transactions and Entities for Third Party Reports on Shares and Units Determination 2020
Full Details	TPRE 2020/D2

Part 9 of the FOI Guidelines
Open Date	02 July 2020
Close Date	23 July 2020
Agency	Office of the Australian Information Commissioner
Description	You are invited to comment on the Freedom of Information (FOI) Guidelines. The OAIC seeks feedback from stakeholders on the content, guidance, readability and accessibility of the updated Part 9 of the FOI Guidelines.
Full Details	Part 9 of the FOI Guidelines

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