The new Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) Cost Recovery Implementation Statement (CRIS) has been approved by the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources, Barnaby Joyce. It will be first used for cost recovery arrangements in the 2017-18 budget.
Under the Australian Government Charging Framework and associated Cost Recovery Guidelines, AFMA was required prepare a new CRIS to replace the old 2010 CRIS.
The CRIS specifies what activities undertaken by AFMA are cost recovered, from whom it is recovered from, and what activities are funded by the Australian Government. The new CRIS will be used to form AFMA’s 2017-18 cost recovered fisheries budgets.
AFMA has previously published the approved CRIS model as part of its earlier consultation as it was applied to AFMA 2016-17 budget. It contains more detailed information on changes and will be updated and published on AFMA’s website as part of the 2017-18 budget consultation process.
AFMA will now be seeking approval from the Protected Zone Joint Authority to have the new CRIS applied to the Torres Strait Prawn Fishery which is managed under different legislation from other cost-recovered fisheries.
For further information please contact Project Manager, Vyt Vilkaitis on 02 6225 5425 or at vyt.vilkaitis@afma.gov.au