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"nationally threatened", in relation to an item, means—
(a) an item that is a listed threatened species or listed ecological community under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
(Cwlth) (a Commonwealth listed item ); or
(b) an item (a "State assessed item") that—
(i) is eligible to be a listed threatened species or listed ecological community under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
(Cwlth); and
(ii) has been assessed by a participating State as a threatened species or ecological community at a national scale, using the common assessment method; or
(c) an item that—
(i) is either—
(A) eligible to be included in a national category of the threatened native species list; or
(B) eligible to be included in the threatened ecological communities list; and
(ii) has been assessed by the Territory as a threatened native species or threatened ecological community at a national scale, using the common assessment method.
participating State means a State that uses the common assessment method to assess a species or ecological community at a national scale.