Summary of proposals The government is proposing the following legislative changes. The department invites comment on these proposals. The proposed legislative changes clarify confidential commercial information provisions to improve their operation and reduce uncertainty for the APVMA staff reduce the regulatory burden by simplifying reporting requirements for annual returns to information requirements and timing with existing levy reporting; mandatory reporting will be restricted to providing total product quantities supplied for the previous year reduce administrative burden on the APVMA and industry by increasing the APVMA’s flexibility to manage errors in an application at the preliminary assessment stage reduce regulatory burden by enabling the APVMA to grant part of a variation application under section 27 of the Agvet Code the APVMA’s timeframe for notifying FSANZ under the Agvet Code about whether a variation to the Maximum Residue Limit Standard is required, so that the timeframe provides for when fees are paid improve the operation of legislation by enabling a person to apply to vary the particulars of a label approval that is suspended, to the extent that the variation relates to the matters relating to the grounds for suspension amend the definition of date’ in the Agvet Code to specify the date after which a ‘expiry product not’ be used and amend the date format for an expiry date ‘must add the potential for human exposure to antimicrobial resistant microorganisms as a specific safety consideration that the APVMA must have regard to for chemical products and active constituents provide a broader suite of sanctions by including civil penalty provisions in the Agvet Code and the Administration Act for providing false or misleading information make minor and technical amendments to the Administration Act and the Agvet Code, including to remove redundant provisions make related consequential, transitional and savings provisions arising from the proposed amendments, as needed. The government proposes that these measures would commence at different times to provide for their orderly introduction. The proposed commencement provisions are described later in this document under Proposals for Change’. ‘Our
Summary of proposals The government is proposing the following legislative changes. The department invites comment on these proposals. The proposed legislative changes clarify confidential commercial information provisions to improve their operation and reduce uncertainty for the APVMA staff reduce the regulatory burden by simplifying reporting requirements for annual returns to information requirements and timing with existing levy reporting; mandatory reporting will be restricted to providing total product quantities supplied for the previous year reduce administrative burden on the APVMA and industry by increasing the APVMA’s flexibility to manage errors in an application at the preliminary assessment stage reduce regulatory burden by enabling the APVMA to grant part of a variation application under section 27 of the Agvet Code the APVMA’s timeframe for notifying FSANZ under the Agvet Code about whether a variation to the Maximum Residue Limit Standard is required, so that the timeframe provides for when fees are paid improve the operation of legislation by enabling a person to apply to vary the particulars of a label approval that is suspended, to the extent that the variation relates to the matters relating to the grounds for suspension amend the definition of ‘expiry date’ in the Agvet Code to specify the date after which a product ‘must not’ be used and amend the date format for an expiry date add the potential for human exposure to antimicrobial resistant microorganisms as a specific safety consideration that the APVMA must have regard to for chemical products and active constituents provide a broader suite of sanctions by including civil penalty provisions in the Agvet Code and the Administration Act for providing false or misleading information make minor and technical amendments to the Administration Act and the Agvet Code, including to remove redundant provisions make related consequential, transitional and savings provisions arising from the proposed amendments, as needed. The government proposes that these measures would commence at different times to provide for their orderly introduction. The proposed commencement provisions are described later in this document under ‘Our Proposals for Change’.
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