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Accredited Third Party Providers and Brokers

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About Accredited Third Party Providers

Accredited Third Party Providers can:

help a landholder organise an assessment of the vegetation for a proposed SEB area
develop SEB management plans and costings
establish and manage SEB sites.

Note that a Third Party Provider cannot do a formal SEB vegetation assessment for an SEB site that they will be responsible for managing.

Some Third Party Providers offer broker services. They can facilitate agreements or contracts between clearance applicants and landholders or SEB credit holders.

Finding an Accredited Third Party Provider/Broker

View a list of Accredited Third Party Providers/Brokers.

Becoming an Accredited Third Party Provider

If you or your organisation would like to work with landholders and clearance applicants to help deliver Significant Environmental Benefit (SEB) offsets, you can apply to become accredited as a:

Third Party Provider – establish and manage SEB sites
Broker – help find and set up SEB sites but leave the management to someone else; facilitate arrangements between clearance applicants and landowners or broker assignments of SEB credit.

If you wish to establish and manage an SEB site as a Third Party Provider, you must be prepared to enter into a Management Agreement with the Minister for Environment and Water for the site. If you are not the owner of the site, you will also need a lease agreement (or other contractual arrangement) with the landholder.

For more information, see the Accredited Third Party Provider and SEB Credit Guide.

To become an accredited Third Party Provider you must complete the Application for Accreditation as a Third Party Provider and submit it with the prescribed fee. Your application needs to demonstrate your experience and capacity to native vegetation management or biodiversity conservation projects in SA.

The Native Vegetation Council will assess your application and may impose conditions on your accreditation. Once accredited, your contact information will be provided on the Accredited Third Party Providers list.

Establishing an SEB site as an Accredited Third Party Provider

Detailed information about the requirements for SEB sites is in the Native Vegetation Significant Environmental Benefit Policy.

Once you have selected an appropriate site, submit an Application to the Native Vegetation Council. Your application will include:

a vegetation assessment completed by an Accredited Consultant (while you may also be registered as an Accredited Consultant, you are not permitted to conduct a vegetation assessment of an SEB site that you are seeking to establish)
a draft Management Plan for the SEB site (prepared by you or the Accredited Consultant using the appropriate Native Vegetation Council template)
GIS shapefiles with boundaries of the proposed area and vegetation associations.

If approved by the Native Vegetation Council, the SEB site is secured when you (or the relevant party) enter into a Management Agreement with the Minister for Environment and Water.