External Reporting

The Australian Fisheries Management Authority has a number of external reporting obligations.

Portfolio Budget Statements

Portfolio Budget Statements (PBS) inform Senators and Members of Parliament of the proposed allocation of resources to Government outcomes for the coming year. The PBS details financial arrangements, allots expenditure against individual activities and describes how these activities contribute to the government’s priorities.

A full list of current and previous Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Fisheries & Foresty (DAFF) Portfolio Budget Statements are available on the DAFF website.

Department and Agency Contracts Listing

Title Size
Contracts Listing 1 July 2010 to 30 June 2011 68kb
Contracts Listing 1 January to 31 December 2010 47kb
Contracts Listing 1 July 2009 to 30 June 2010 44kb
Senate Order on departmental and agency contracts listing relating to the Period 1 January 2011 to 31 December 2011 71.6kb

File Listing Report

The indexed list of file titles report provides an indexed listing of the files created for the Australian Fisheries Management Authority.

Title Size
1 January to 30 June 2011 241kb
1 July to 31 December 2011 98kb

Legal Expenditure

The Australian Fisheries Management Authority is required to comply with the obligations set out in the Legal Services Directions 2005, issued by the Attorney-General under the Judiciary Act 1903. Paragraph 11.1(ba) of the Directions prescribes that the Chief Executive Officer of a Commonwealth Agency is required to make publicly available records of the agency’s legal services expenditure for each financial year. These records include the total amounts spent on external legal expenses, such as counsel and legal firms’ fees, travel costs and other disbursements, and internal legal fees comprising of legal staff salaries and superannuation.

Regulatory Change Plan

The Regulatory Change Plans outline proposed new regulatory plans and changes to regulatory plans. Each Commonwealth agency that has responsibility for business regulation is required to publish a regulatory plan on its website early in each financial year. The regulatory plan deals with changes within the agency’s area of responsibility and contains information about:

  • changes to business regulation which have occurred since the beginning of the previous financial year
  • activities planned in the current financial year which could lead to changes to business regulation.

AFMA’s regulatory plan can be found on the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) website as detailed in the Past Regulatory Change document and Proposed Regulatory Change document.

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