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As announced in the 2018-19 Australian Government budget, from 1 July 2020 the Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA) will begin operating as a full cost recovery agency. As a result, from 1 July 2020 ASQA must fully recover the costs associated with regulation of the vocational education and training (VET) sector. Cost recovery involves government entities charging individuals or organisations some or all of the efficient costs of a government activity. This consultation paper provides information on how ASQA proposes to achieve full cost recovery from 1 July 2020. The proposal includes changes to ASQA's current schedule of fees and charges. Some aspects of this proposal may require changes to current statutory arrangements or to ASQA's current budget appropriation before they could be implemented. Before work advances to facilitate such changes, ASQA seeks feedback on the proposal from all participants and stakeholders in the VET sector. All feedback received will be reviewed and considered, to inform decisions on how the proposal may be adapted or improved. Information about ASQA's current cost recovery measures in the 'Cost recovery implementation statement' [available in VOCEDplus at TD/TNC 138.336] includes: current schedule of fees and charges; and government policy approval and statutory authority to cost recover.

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