Biosecurity Costs Regulations
Table of Contents
- Amendment to The Biosecurity (Costs) Regulations 1993 And Proposed Levy
- Part One: Summary of the Proposals
- Introduction
- Summary of Main Changes
- Rationale for Setting Charges
- Proposed Levy: Gypsy Moth Surveillance Programme
- When Any Changes Come Into Effect
- Revocation of Forestry-Related Regulations
- Items Not Part of this Review
- Future Changes to Cost Recovery Regulations
- Part Two: Proposed Amendments
- Calculation of hourly rates
- Animal clearances
- Treatment of individual risk goods
- Inspection of a consignment of one used car or van
- Inspection of a consignment of one used bus, utility vehicle or truck
- Inspection of consignments of more than one used car, utility vehicle, van, truck or bus
- Motorcycles, one only
- Motorcycles, each subsequent one after the first
- All landed sea containers
- Sea container inspections
- Personal effects (documentation only)
- Personal effects of 0.5 m³ or less and "item only" inspection
- Personal effects greater than 0.5 m³ but less than a full container load
- Personal effects comprising an entire shipping container
- Fishmeal
- Animal products (trade samples)
- Biological products
- Nursery stock and flowers
- Fresh produce
- A consignment of seeds weighing less than 100 grammes or a single bag of seeds regardless of weight
- A consignment of seeds weighing 100 grammes or more (including full container loads of seeds)
- Stored products
- Plant products
- Transport and destruction of risk goods
- Inspection of documents
- Surveillance of cargo discharge
- Diagnostic services (off site laboratory) - identification of organisms
- Diagnostic services (on-site laboratory) - identification of organisms
- Import permits
- First time approvals of transitional facilities, containment facilities and their operators (excluding border transitional facilities)
- Re-approvals of transitional facilities, containment facilities and their operators (excluding border transitional facilities)
- Approval and reassessment of transitional facilities (border)
- Inspection and monitoring of animals and plants (general)
- Inspection of animals not intended for clearance
- Used car parts
- Used tyres
- Used machinery and tracked vehicles
- Bulk grain
- Disposition of goods
- Waiting time
- Call outs
- Treatment of risk goods
- Travel costs
- Waiver of costs
- Packs of sawn timber
- Logs and roundwood
- Offshore inspection of ships
- Additional services undertaken pursuant to the Biosecurity Act
- Other matters
- Part Three: Supporting Information: Hourly Rates Derivations
- Specialist Inspectors (Biosecurity Scientists)
- Transitional and Containment Facilities (Animals)
- Transitional and Containment Facilities (Plants)
- Specialist Inspectors (Veterinarians)
- General Inspectors
- Biosecurity Authority Advisers
- National Pest and Plant Reference Laboratory Pest Identification Costings
- Part Four: Activity Analysis (MAF Quarantine Service)
- Part Five: Objectives for Cost Recovery
- Part Six: Additional Information Available
- Part Seven: General Assessment of Charges
- Part Eight: Assessment of Funding a Gypsy Moth Monitoring Programme
- Introduction
- What is the Current And Emerging Situation?
- What Is Being Delivered?
- Who Could be Charged?
- Who is it Best To Charge?
- How Should the Charge Be Structured?
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Contact for Enquiries
Rural Affairs Coordinator
Sector Performance Policy
MAF Policy
Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
PO Box 2526
Wellington
NEW ZEALAND
Phone: +64 4 894 0675
Fax: +64 4 4 894 0745
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