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EXPORT INSPECTION AND MEAT (ESTABLISHMENT REGISTRATION CHARGES) AMENDMENT REGULATIONS 2001 (NO. 2) 2001 NO. 135

STATUTORY RULES 2001 No. 135

Issued by the authority of the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry

Export Inspection (Establishment Registration Charges) Act 1985

Export Inspection and Meat (Establishment Registration Charges) Amendment Regulations 2001 (No. 2)

Section 9 of the Export Inspection (Establishment Registration Charges) Act 1985 (the Act) provides that the Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with the Act, prescribing matters required or permitted by the Act to be prescribed, or necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to the Act.

The Export Inspection and Meat (Establishment Registration Charges) Regulations 1985 impose charges in relation to the registration of export establishments.

The Horticulture Export Program of the Australian Quarantine Inspection Service is responsible for ensuring that exported horticultural products are prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Export Control Act 1982, and thereby ensuring products are wholesome and fulfil the certification requirements imposed by importing country authorities. Program costs are fully recovered from the export industry. Recent reviews by the Quarantine Export Advisory Committee, KPMG consulting and the Horticulture Exports Program Steering Committee identified the need to ensure that overhead costs of the program should be more equitably distributed amongst all sectors of the industry,

The purpose of the Export Inspection and Meat (Establishment Registration Charges) Amendment Regulations 2001 (No 2) is to standardise registration charges that apply to establishments associated with preparing, storing or inspecting dried fruits, fresh fruit and vegetables for export.

The Regulations reflect the agreement reached between the Government and the export horticulture industry about registration charges to be applied from 1 July 2001.

The Regulations commence on 1 July 2001.

Details of the amendment are set out below.

Regulation 1 provides that the Regulations are named the Export Inspection and Meat (Establishment Registration Charges) Amendment Regulations 2001 (No. 2).

Regulation 2 provides that the Regulations commence on 1 July 2001.

Regulation 3 provides that Schedule 1 amend the Export Inspection and Meat (Establishment Registration Charges) Regulations 1985.

Schedule 1

Schedule 1 Amendments

Item 1 removes plants and plant products from the list of prescribed commodities set out under sub section 4(1) since registration charges are no longer to be imposed for establishments that store or inspect plant and plant products.

Item 2 amends Part 3 of schedule 1, to:

•       increase the registration charge that applies to establishments that prepare, store or inspect fresh fruit and vegetables from $431 per year to $600;

•       decrease the registration charge that applies to establishments that process or pack dried fruit from $1,080 per year to $600; and

•       remove the registration charge that applies to establishments that store or inspect plant and plant products since the recovery of the costs associated with registering establishments that store or inspect plant and plant products will be collected by an alternate mechanism.