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AUSTRALIAN MEAT AND LIVE-STOCK (QUOTAS) AMENDMENT REGULATIONS 2003 (NO. 1) 2003 NO. 275

Paragraph 6(2)(a) of the Australian Meat and Live-stock (Quotas) Act 1990 (the Act) provides that the Secretary of the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry may grant a meat export quota by allocating it to a licensee on application by the licensee and on payment of the prescribed fee.

Section 9 of the Act provides that the Governor-General may make regulations prescribing matters required or permitted to be prescribed by the Act, or necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to the Act.

The purpose of these regulations is to amend the prescribed fee that must be paid by a licensee before the Secretary may allocate a quota to that licensee.

The European Commission and the United States of America impose quotas to control the access of meat imported from Australia at concessional tariff rates. The Quota Administration and Statistics Unit manages the allocation, monitoring and reporting of Australia's country-specific meat export quotas and the fee, as agreed with the red meat industry, will recover the costs associated with the administration of the quotas on a fee for service basis. A review of these costs has resulted in a reduction to the proposed fee to be recovered from licensees.

Regulation 1 provides for the citation of the regulations.

Regulation 2 provides that the regulations will commence on gazettal.

Regulation 3 provides that Schedule 1 amends the Australian Meat and Live-stock (Quotas) Regulations 2000.

Schedule 1 amends the fee rate, which will be 0.05 cents kilogram of quota entitlement allocated to the licensee in the quota year.

These regulations commenced on gazettal.