Date of issue: 1 July 2025
Date of effect: 1 July 2025
Attention: All Stakeholders
Purpose
This Industry Advice Notice (IAN) is to advise that the 2025-26 Cost Recovery Implementation Statement (CRIS), will be published on the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) website (www.agriculture.gov.au) in July 2025.
Key points
CRISs provide information on how DAFF implements cost recovery in export arrangements. DAFF’s implementation of cost recovery for exports is structured primarily around fee-for-service and levy charges.
- Fees 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 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.
Prices in the 2025-26 CRIS will remain the same as 2024-25 prices.
Fact sheets have also been published on the DAFF website to summarise the export cost recovery fees and charges for 2025-26.
Next steps
The department has established the Trade Strategy Taskforce (formally 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 the department is appropriately resourced to deliver the timely and effective services necessary to enable agricultural trade and exports into the future.
The Trade Strategy Taskforce is continuing to undertake its review of the funding model. Export cost recovery prices remain unchanged while this work continues.
Contact information
If you have any questions regarding this advice, please email CostRecovery@aff.gov.au.