Fees in Relation to Quota Management Systems—European Union (EU) Free Trade Agreement (FTA) Beef Tariff Rate Quota (TRQ) and EU FTA Sheepmeat and Goatmeat Fresh/Chilled and Frozen TRQs
Under section 36 of the Meat Board Act 2004, the New Zealand Meat Board (“Board”) must recover the costs of quota administration services from the users of those services.
New Zealand (NZ) and European Union (EU) have negotiated a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and ratification by the EU and NZ Parliaments is concluding. The FTA will enter into force on 1 May 2024. The Board has developed Quota Allowance Allocation Systems to enable administration of the EU FTA Beef and EU Sheepmeat and Goatmeat (fresh/chilled and frozen) TRQs.
To prepare for administration of the EU FTA Beef and EU FTA Sheepmeat & Goatmeat (fresh/chilled and frozen) TRQs, the Board has determined quota management fees payable in respect of each of the new FTA Quotas, and these are set out in the table below. The fees will apply with immediate effect.
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$ Amount of Fee (G.S.T. excluded) |
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Application for Quota Allowance |
EU FTA Sheepmeat and Goatmeat |
EU FTA Sheepmeat and Goatmeat |
EU FTA Beef |
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New Entrant Application Fee |
NA |
NA |
NA |
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Fixed Participation Fee (for access to annual quota allocation) |
NA |
NA |
$3,000.00 |
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First Come First Served Participation Fee (first application only) |
$950.00 |
$950.00 |
$1,500.00 |
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Variable Participation Fee (per tonne) |
$4.50 |
$4.50 |
$2.40 |
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Special Levy (per tonne) |
NA |
NA |
NA |
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Certificates issued (per certificate) |
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Wellington (electronic) |
$45.00 |
$45.00 |
$10.00 |
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Wellington (manual) |
$100.00 |
$100.00 |
$100.00 |
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Brussels – Sea Freight |
$200.00 |
$200.00 |
$200.00 |
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Brussels – Air Freight |
$150.00 |
$150.00 |
$150.00 |
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Certificate rework (per certificate) |
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Wellington – Not issued |
$30.00 |
$30.00 |
$30.00 |
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Wellington – Cancelled |
$30.00 |
$30.00 |
$30.00 |
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Transfers |
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General Quota Allowance |
NA |
NA |
$50.00 |
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Production History (but does not include transfer of export history) |
$500.00 |
$500.00 |
$500.00 |
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Quota Utilisation Reports |
Nil |
Nil |
Nil |
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Miscellaneous |
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Courier Costs |
Actual |
Actual |
Actual |
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Production/Export History Audits |
Actual |
Actual |
Actual |
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Company Compliance Audits |
Actual |
Actual |
Actual |
All EU WTO Sheepmeat and Goatmeat TRQ, UK WTO Sheepmeat and Goatmeat TRQ, EU WTO High Quality Beef TRQ, UK WTO High Quality Beef TRQ, UK FTA Beef TRQ and UK FTA Sheepmeat TRQ and United States (US) Beef and Veal TRQ quota management fees remain unchanged.
Dated at Wellington this 3rd day of April 2024.
N. BEEBY, General Manager – Quota and Information, New Zealand Meat Board.