I am pleased to present our annual delivery plan for 2025–26. As always, we are motivated by the impact we have on public health and our environment, and strive to deliver results that matter.
This year we continue to support the delivery of government priorities through our regulatory programs and projects, including our Office of Land Renewal. We are committed to creating a regulatory environment that encourages responsible innovation and strengthens our engagement with community and industry, ensuring their safety. This approach ensures our actions are not only consistent with broader policy directions but also responsive to the values and expectations of the Victorian community, helping us build trust and deliver outcomes that matter to both people and the environment.
Delivering on our core functions and key commitments has become more challenging in the past few years. Our teams are working to tight timeframes and budgets, while the complexity of our operating environment and demand on our services continues to increase.
So in 2025–26, we’re continuing our focus on strengthening the core services we deliver to ensure we’re a modern, risk-based regulator. We want to continue to meet the expectations of our community and duty holders when it comes to incident response, permissioning, and compliance and enforcement activities. To do this we’re focused on delivering projects that help us be more efficient and effective, that streamline services for those that engage with them, and that enable us to respond quickly to changes in our operating environment. This also allows us to concentrate our resources on areas that deliver the biggest benefits to Victorians and our environment, while protecting the health and safety of our staff.
Since 2021, we’ve aligned our annual planning to key objectives and results. This was a great approach to kick start our 5-year strategic plan. Now in the strategy’s penultimate year, we’ve evolved our approach to ensure we continue to be driven by regulatory priorities, government commitments and strategic risks – as set out in this plan.
I am proud of the work we do at EPA and I look forward to working with our staff, partners and stakeholders to deliver on our vision of a healthy environment that supports a sustainable Victoria.
Joss Crawford
Interim Chief Executive Officer
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