Cost recovery redesign
Plant exports: grain, seed and other products
Plant exports: grain, seed and other
products
Cost recovery redesign
Overview
The department has redesigned its cost recovery arrangements with new fees and levies coming
into effect on 1 December 2015. This fact sheet has been developed to provide you with an
overview of the key changes to charges relating to grain and seed exports. This document should
be read in conjunction with the department’s Charging Guidelines and the Plant Cost Recovery
Implementation Statement (CRIS).
Key changes
Annual levies for registered establishments
All registered establishments will be subject to annual levies. A simple establishment (exports
non-bulk grain and other plant products such as timber) will be charged $3 000 per annum. A
complex establishment (loads large, unpackaged quantities of bulk grain directly into a vessel
hold for export) will be charged $6 000 per annum.
Applications for new registered establishments will incur a one-off $600 establishment
application levy.
Export tonnage levy
The tonnage levy has increased to 15 cents per tonne for 2015-16 and will reduce to 11 cents
per tonne by 2017-18. The levy will be applied as a minimum charge of one tonne (or part
tonne) per product line.
All grains and seeds and other plant products including forestry products, are subject to the
tonnage charge.
Authorised officer programme
The authorised officer programme will now be fully cost recovered through new fees and levies
(see table 5). Exporters will incur higher charges for activities undertaken by departmental staff
that could be undertaken by authorised officers. A complete list of these activities can be found
on the department’s website.
Inspection and audit fees
Inspections and audits fees will be charged at $36 per 15 minutes.
Where an exporter could use an approved authorised officer but instead chooses to use a
departmental officer, the inspection charge will be $75 per 15 minutes. This will commence for:

protocol job functions from 1 July 2016

all other job functions from 1 March 2016.
Cost recovery redesign
Plant exports: grain, seed and other products
Electronic permits
Documents (excluding phytosanitary certificates) applied for electronically will incur a $12 fee
per document. Phytosanitary certificates will be $50 per document, this includes the combined
cost of the electronic certificate ($12) and the phytosanitary certificate levy ($38).
All documents applied for manually will incur a $100 fee per document.
Overtime
Overtime changes have been standardised for activities undertaken outside of the department’s
standard span of hours, which are weekdays between 6:30am and 6:30pm, where the activity is
delivered. All activities undertaken outside of the department’s standard span of hours will incur
the relevant fee for service charge in addition to overtime charges (see table 6).
Further Information
The Plant Exports CRIS, Charging Guidelines and other supporting material can be found on the
department’s website at agriculture.gov.au/costrecovery or by emailing
[email protected].
Fee and levy changes
Table 1 Certificate charges
Fee item
Unit
Charge to
30 Nov 2015
Unit
Charge from
1 Dec 2015
Export permit applied for
electronically
Document
$16
Document
$12
Phytosanitary cert applied for
electronically
Document
$16
Document
$50
Other government documents
applied for electronically
Document
$16
Document
$12
Export permit applied for
manually
Document
$100
Document
$100
Phytosanitary cert applied for
manually
Document
$100
Document
$100
Other government documents
issued manually
Document
$100
Document
$100
Replacement certificate
Document
$500
Document
$500
Fee item
Unit
Charge to
30 Nov 2015
Unit
Charge from
1 Dec 2015
Establishment Application
-
-
Per application
$600
Registered establishment (Bulk
grain)
Annual
$4 300
Annual
$6 000
Registered establishment (other
grain, seeds and plant products)
Annual
$2 500
Annual
$3 000
Table 2 Establishment registration
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Plant exports: grain, seed and other products
Table 3 Fee for service
Fee item
Unit
Charge to
30 Nov 2015
Unit
Charge from
1 Dec 2015
Fee for Service
15 minutes
$36
15 minutes
$36
Additional service
-
-
15 minutes
$75*
Fee for service
Daily
$1 152
-
-
Fee for service
Weekly
$5 760
-
-
Table 4 Grain, seed and other plant products tonnage charge
Fee item
Unit
Charge to
30 Nov 2015
Unit
Charge from
1 Dec 2015
Tonnage Charge
Per tonne
$0.11
Per tonne
$0.15
Fee item
Unit
Charge to
30 Nov 2015
Unit
Charge from
1 Dec 2015
Authorised officer application fee
-
-
Per application
$250
Authorised officer learning and
assessment
-
-
Per person (up
to 5 packages)
$1 750
Authorised officer learning and
assessment not yet competent
-
-
Per person
$2 000
Authorised officer approval
-
-
Per person
$250
Audit fee for Service
15 minutes
$36
15 minutes
$36
Annual charge authorised officer
-
-
Annual
$750
Table 5 Authorised officer
Table 6 Overtime rates (rates to be applied in addition to the relevant fee for service)
Fee item
Unit
Charge to
30 Nov 2015
Unit
Charge from
1 Dec 2015
Time and a half - continuous
(Mon - Sat)
15 minutes
$15
-
-
Time and a half – non-continuous
(Mon - Sat)
3 hours
minimum
$180
-
-
Double Time – continuous
15 minutes
$20
-
-
Double Time – non-continuous
(Sunday)
3 hours
minimum
$240
-
-
Double Time and a half –
non-continuous
3 hours
minimum
$300
-
-
Double Time and a half –
continuous
15 minutes
$25
-
-
Overtime weekday
-
-
15 minutes
$15
Overtime weekday
(non-continuous)
-
-
30 minutes
minimum
$30
(Sunday)
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Fee item
Unit
Charge to
30 Nov 2015
Unit
Charge from
1 Dec 2015
Overtime weekend/Public Holiday
(non-continuous)
-
-
30 minutes
minimum
$40
Overtime weekend/Public Holiday
(additional)
-
-
15 minutes
$20
* to commence for protocol job functions from 1 July 2016 and all other job functions from 1
March 2016