01 July 2024
Purpose
This Industry Advice Notice (IAN) is to advise that the 2024–25 horticulture exports cost recovery implementation statement (CRIS) will be published on our website in July 2024.
Summary of changes and key points
- It is Australian Government policy to recover the cost of delivering export regulatory services.
- CRISs provide information on how we implement cost recovery in export arrangements.
- For horticulture export activities, we implement cost recovery through
- fees, which are charged when regulation is provided directly to an individual or organisation for the delivery of regulatory activities such as inspections of goods, audit of registered premises, or assessment of export certification.
- cost recovery levies or charges, which are applied when regulation is imposed on an industry sector rather than directly to a specific individual or organisation. These charges recover the costs of maintaining regulatory infrastructure and integrity through program management and administration, assurance and incident management activities.
- The 2024–25 horticulture export prices are set in legislation and come into effect on 1 July 2024.
- Charging Guidelines have been updated to reflect 2024–25 prices and are available on our website.
Background
The 2024–25 CRIS describes the final stepped increase in prices that was implemented through the Busting Congestion for Agricultural Exporters package in the 2020–21 Federal Budget. It sets out the assumptions, costs, volumes and prices for regulatory activities in 2024–25. It describes the method of cost allocation used in determining prices for activities.
A fact sheet has also been published to summarise the new export cost recovery fees and charges for 2024–25.
We have also established the Sustainable Trade Funding Taskforce to progress work on the development of an ongoing sustainable funding model to support agricultural trade and exports functions. This work is aimed at ensuring we are appropriately resourced to deliver timely and effective services necessary to enable agricultural trade and exports into the future. The sustainable funding model will be implemented by 1 July 2025.
Contact information
If you have any questions regarding this advice, please email the Cost Recovery team.
Maria Loyman
Assistant Secretary
Funding and Revenue Branch