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APVMA Cost Recovery Arrangements

The APVMA is funded by fees, charges and levies imposed on the industry it regulates. Chemical companies pay fees for the APVMA to evaluate registration proposals and a levy based on the wholesale sales of chemical products.

Background

The current APVMA cost recovery arrangements) were implemented in July 2005, and reviewed in 2008. At this time, we sought stakeholder input into the process and released a draft cost recovery impact statement (CRIS) in December 2008.

In early 2010, the then Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, decided that a 10 per cent increase in fees would be applied from 1 July 2010, pending development of a revised cost recovery impact statement.

The 10 per cent increase applied to the annual fee on product registrations, new application fees for evaluation and approval (category and modular), hormonal growth promotants notification number application and renewal fees, Certificate of Export fees, new good manufacturing practice licences and database information fees. Levies did not change. These changes were given effect by a variation to the 2005 CRIS.

The 10 per cent increase was an interim measure. Further changes to the APVMA's cost recovery arrangements were to be considered in the context of expected reforms to the operation of the APVMA announced in the government's August 2010 election commitment for the Better Regulation of Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals. The government announced its intention to proceed with the Better Regulation of Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals in early 2011─details of the proposed reforms can be found on the DAFF website (external site).

In December 2011, we published a discussion paper that proposed further interim cost recovery arrangements for the APVMA in 2012–15. The paper focused on ensuring appropriate and sustainable revenue to enable efficient and effective administration of agvet chemical regulation and to minimise risks while a longer-term First Principles Review is being undertaken by the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry.

The December 2011 discussion paper also proposed a number of changes to the current arrangements for the recovery of costs associated with the assessment of compliance with Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP), which affects manufacturers of veterinary medicines in the Australian marketplace and registrants of imported veterinary products.

Following consultation on the discussion paper we discussed an alternate proposal for the recovery of costs associated with the assessment of compliance with GMP with a number of veterinary medicines Industry groups

This alternative proposal is presented in a supplementary discussion paper on the Cost Recovery of Compliance with GMP. Comments are being sought on this paper until 15 June 2012.

It is expected that a cost recovery impact statement (CRIS) will then be developed. The timing of this CRIS is however dependant on the progression of the Better Regulation of Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals legislative reforms.

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Contact

Program Manager, Corporate Services

PO Box 6182
Kingston ACT 2604

Ph: (02) 6210 4844
Fax: (02) 6210 4874

Email: communications@apvma.gov.au