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Information on the Department's regulatory plan, information on contracts under the Senate Order on Departmental Contracts (Murray Motion) and the Department's file listing under the Harradine Motion.

Legal Services Purchasing 2006-2007

In 2006-2007 the Departments expenditure on external legal services was $1,535.210.04 inclusive of GST and any disbursements.

Regulatory Plan 2007-2008

This site sets out the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy Regulatory Plan for 2007-2008 (Completed Regulatory Activities 2007-2008 and Planned Regulatory Activities 2008-2009).

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; and
  • activities planned in the current financial year which could lead to changes to business regulation.

What regulation does a regulatory plan cover?

A regulatory plan covers business regulation. This includes primary legislation, subordinate legislation, quasi-regulation or treaties which directly affect business, have a significant indirect effect on business, or restrict competition.

Quasi-regulation refers to rules or arrangements where governments influence businesses to comply, but which do not form part of explicit government regulation.

A regulatory plan does not include information about the following:

  • regulations of a minor or machinery nature that do not substantially alter existing arrangements;
  • regulations that involve consideration of specific Government purchases;
  • regulations of a state or self-governing territory that apply in a non-self governing territory; and
  • anticipated activity about which it would be inappropriate to publish information on grounds of confidentiality.

In addition, there may be regulatory activities undertaken during the next financial year which have not been included in a regulatory plan because they could not be foreseen when the plan was prepared at the start of the financial year.

In view of these exclusions, users should not take a regulatory plan to be a comprehensive source of information on past or potential changes to business regulation.

How up to date is information in this regulatory plan?

The Regulatory Plan was last updated in September 2007

This link opens a document in Portable Document File (PDF) formatDBCDE Regulatory Plan 2007-08 (File size: 126Kb)

Senate Order on Departmental Contracts

The Senate Order on Departmental Contracts requires details of contracts, the value of $100,000 or more, to be posted on the Department's website. Under this information you will find the latest list of contracts concerned, the estimated cost of compliance with the Senate Order on Departmental Contracts and links to other relevant FMA agencies that post their own list such as ScreenSound Australia, the National Archives and the National Office for the Information Economy.

File lists

Here you can view Department file lists as required under the Harradine Motion.

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