Grain exports fees and charges

Section 1 — Program Overview

The Grain and Seed Exports Program services are provided on a cost recovery basis. Costs are recovered through fees that are charged for the complete range of export certification activities. This includes time spent on preparation, completion of export inspections, audits, treatment monitoring and registrations, and the issuance of all export documentation. Costs are also recovered by means of a volume charge per tonne. The fee schedule applies to grains, seeds, nuts, fodder and timber. The inspection fee is applied for each booked inspector.

Section 2 — Legislative Base

Category	Act	Regulations	Orders
Fee for Service and Documentation Fees	Export Control Act 1982	Export Control (Orders) Regulations 1982	Export Control (Fees) Orders 2001
Registration Charges	Export Inspection (Establishment Registration Charges) Act 1985	Export Inspection (Establishment Registration Charges) Regulations 1985
Quantity Charges	Export Inspection (Quantity Charges) Act 1985	Export Inspection (Quantity Charges) Regulations 1985
Collection Charges	Export Inspection and Meat Charges Collection Act 1985	Export Inspection and Meat Charges Collection Regulations 1985

Section 3—Fee exemptions

Consignments of prescribed grain comprising less than 10kg do not require an export permit and therefore no export permit documentation fee applies. See Export Control (Prescribed Goods – General) Order 2005 Order 2.01 (g). If an importing country requires other export certification for the consignment, all fees described below will apply.

Section 4 — Fees and charges

This fee structure is to be applied to all export commodities covered by the Grain and Seed Exports Program:

• prescribed grain (any seed or grain of any of the following kinds: barely, canola, chickpeas, dried field peas, faba beans, lentils, lupins, oats, mung beans, sorghum, soybeans, split vetch¹, whole vetch and wheat)
• plants or plant products (nuts, fodder and timber products) for which a phytosanitary certificate or any other government certificate is required by an importing country authority.

Charge Description	Unit of charge	Amount ($)
Fee for service
Inspection	¼ hour	36.00
Overtime
Time and half – continuous	¼ hour	15.00
Double time – continuous	¼ hour	20.00
Double time and a half – continuous	¼ hour	25.00
Time and half - non-continuous	minimum	180.00
Double time - non-continuous	minimum	240.00
Double time and a half - non-continuous	minimum	300.00
Documentation fees
Export permit issued manually	per document	100.00
Export permit issued electronically	per document	16.00
Export permit - replacement - manual / electronic	per document	500.00
Phytosanitary certificate issued manually	per document	100.00
Phytosanitary certificate issued electronically	per document	16.00
Phytosanitary certificate replacement - manual / electronic	per document	500.00
Other Government documents issued manually	per document	100.00
Other Government documents issued electronically	per document	16.00
Other Government documents replacement - manual / electronic	per document	500.00
Registered Establishments
Registered Establishments (Bulk)	application	4 300.00
Registered Establishments (Other)	application	2 500.00
Registered Establishments (Both bulk and other)	application	4 300.00
Volume Charge
Tonnage charge	tonne	0.11

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¹ The export of split vetch is prohibited absolutely.