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Australia Consults on Proposed AICIS Fees and Changes to AICS

Australia began seeking comments on the proposed charging arrangements for AICIS. Another consultation is under way to inform the removal of non-industrial chemicals from the AICS.

On January 31, 2020, the Australian government opened a consultation [1] on proposed fees and charges for the country’s new chemical regulatory framework, the Australian Industrial Chemicals Introduction Scheme (AICIS).

Basically, consistent with the arrangements under the current National Industrial Chemicals Notification and Assessment Scheme (NICNAS), the government will impose fees and charges on activities associated with the import and manufacture of industrial chemicals, so as to recover costs associated with regulating the introduction of industrial chemicals under AICIS.

Earlier in September 2019, the Australian government released the draft Principles for Cost Recovery of the Australian Industrial Chemicals Introduction Scheme [2], in a bid to seek feedback on how to establish fees and charges for AICIS in a scientific and reasonable way. The stakeholder comments collected were taken into account in developing this consultation paper.

The consultation paper outlines several key elements of the charging arrangements for AICIS, including cost recovery framework, AICIS cost estimates, design of regulatory charges and proposed schedule of AICIS fees and charges. Feedback will be received until March 13, 2020.

Besides this consultation, Australia is also consulting on the removal of non-industrial chemicals from the Australian Inventory of Chemical Substances (AICS), a database of chemicals available for industrial use in Australia.

Under the AICIS, the current AICS will be replaced by the Australian Inventory of Industrial Chemicals (AIIC), which shall include only industrial chemicals according to the Industrial Chemicals Act 2019 [3]. Therefore, chemicals on the AICS which are not used for any industrial purpose will be removed from the new inventory, and they are known as “excluded use” chemicals under the Industrial Chemicals (Notification and Assessment) Act 1989 [4]. The NICNAS website has prepared a list of 1,683 excluded use chemicals [5] and is currently requesting information concerning any industrial use of chemicals on the list by March 31 this year.

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