Reporting and record-keeping obligations
Declarations, reports and records you need to submit or keep after you have categorised your introduction.
Before you read this section, you must first categorise each chemical introduction as one of the following: exempted, reported, assessed, listed or commercial evaluation. Read our guide to work out your introduction category.
Your chemical introduction is authorised under our new scheme AICIS if it’s introduced before 31 August 2022 and meets certain exemption criteria that existed under the National Industrial Chemicals Notification and Assessment Scheme (NICNAS). You must keep records about your introduction.
These are required for all reported introductions. You must submit your pre-introduction report before you start your import or manufacture in Australia.
You must keep records about your chemical introduction. You’ll use these to submit your ‘annual declaration’. The first annual declaration under AICIS is due by 30 November 2021.
For some types of exempted introductions, you must submit a once-off post-introduction declaration.
Find out what records you must keep if you are making a listed introduction.
Find out what records you must keep if you're introducing a chemical that's categorised as exempted.
Find out what records you must keep if you are making a reported introduction.
For introductions of chemicals that are internationally assessed for human health and/or the environment, you’ll need to keep certain records - and provide them within 20 working days if we ask for them.
Find out what records you must keep if you are making an assessed introduction.
Find out what records you must keep if you are introducing under a commercial evaluation authorisation.