Volume One 5. Allocation of Public Resources water by this policy. This will ensure that a system of enhanced transfer has the greatest opportunity to function effectively over time. [R] Policy 5.4.4 – Enable access to water that has been allocated but is not currently being utilised by individual water permit holders through the transfer of water permits. This policy seeks to enable the movement of water between users within a freshwater management unit so that more efficient utilisation of the available water can occur. Through the monitoring of water use authorised by resource consent, it is evident that the actual demand for water is usually less (sometimes considerably so) than the volume of water allocated via the water permit. This is water that could be utilised by other existing users or by potential users that are unable to access water due to a state of full allocation. [R] Policy 5.4.5 – When an enhanced transfer system is included in the Marlborough Environment Plan to enable the full or partial transfer of individual water allocations between the holders of water permits to take and use water, this will be provided for as a permitted activity where: (a) the respective takes are from the same Freshwater Management Unit; (b) the Freshwater Management Unit has a water allocation limit specified in Schedule 1 of Appendix 6; (c) the take is not from the Brancott Freshwater Management Unit, Benmorven Freshwater Management Unit or the Riverlands Freshwater Management Unit; (d) metered take and use data is transferred to the Council by both the transferor and the transferee in real time using telemetry; (e) the allocation is authorised via a water permit(s) applied for and granted after 9 June 2016; (f) the transferee holds a water permit to take water if their abstraction point differs from the that of the transferor; and (g) the transferee holds a water permit to use water. The duration of the transfer is at the discretion of the transferor and transferee and can be on a temporary basis or for the remaining duration of the water permit. An enhanced transfer system was not included in the MEP when it was publically notified on 9 June 2016. However, the Council intends to introduce such a system to the MEP through the plan change provisions under First Schedule of the RMA at a later date. Under a system of enhanced transfer of water permits, water users would have the flexibility to develop their own transfer arrangements. In these circumstances, there is a need for appropriate protections to be put in place to make a system of enhanced transfer work efficiently and effectively for water users, as well as to protect the reliability of the water resource for existing users. The matters (a) to (f) effectively establish ground rules under which enhanced transfer can occur. In doing so, this policy gives effect to Policy B3 of the NPSFM. The matters listed above will form the basis of permitted activity standards for the transfer of water permits. [R] Policy 5.4.6 – Provide water users and the community with daily water use information for fully allocated water resources. This policy commits the Council to providing daily water use information for uses authorised by way of resource consent occurring in fully allocated water resources. The provision of such information will be particularly important when the enhanced transfer system identified in Policy 5.4.5 is introduced to the MEP as this will enable opportunities for the transfer of water between users to be identified by those users. 5 – 19