Verified against primary sources as of 17 August 2026. Laws and figures change — confirm current requirements before relying on this page.
Australia: 6 verified country-layer records — legal permit (2), mandatory scheme (1), conditional requirement (3). 1 accreditation body is listed for this jurisdiction. Records span 3 jurisdiction levels: New South Wales, Victoria, Commonwealth (federal). Each record below carries its legal instrument, who it binds, and the date it was last verified against its primary source.
- Records
- 6
- Accreditation bodies
- 1
National accreditation
Regional accreditation body serving this jurisdiction
Mandatory and regulatory records
Verified from primary sources, grouped by how binding each one is. None of these is a certificate; each carries the instrument it comes from and the date it was last checked.
Mandatory scheme
How this jurisdiction is structured
JAS-ANZ was established by international treaty, not a domestic law
The Joint Accreditation System of Australia and New Zealand was created by an intergovernmental agreement between Australia and New Zealand, signed 30 October 1991 (governance updated by a second agreement in 1998). It accredits certification bodies — management-system certifiers (e.g. ISO 9001, ISO 14001), product certification (including CodeMark, WaterMark), personnel certification, inspection bodies and verification/validation bodies. It does not accredit laboratories.
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NATA is recognised through a Memorandum of Understanding, not a licensing law
The National Association of Testing Authorities, Australia was founded in 1947 — the world's first comprehensive laboratory accreditation system — and is recognised through a Memorandum of Understanding with the Commonwealth of Australia, renewed for five years in June 2024. Under it, the government commits to using NATA-accredited facilities for its own testing needs, to Commonwealth laboratories obtaining NATA accreditation, and recognises NATA as the national Good Laboratory Practice monitoring authority. NATA accredits testing and calibration laboratories (ISO/IEC 17025), medical laboratories (ISO 15189) and inspection bodies (ISO/IEC 17020) — it does not accredit management-system certification bodies.
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Find a JAS-ANZ accredited body or certified organisation
JAS-ANZ maintains two separate registers: one for the certification, inspection and verification bodies it accredits, and a separate one for the certificates those bodies have issued.
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Find a NATA accredited facility
NATA's own search tool lists its accredited testing, calibration, medical and inspection facilities, searchable by standard and location.
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Model work health and safety laws — Victoria is the one exception
Safe Work Australia develops model work health and safety laws that only take effect once a jurisdiction enacts them in its own law — Safe Work Australia is not itself a regulator. Confirmed directly from its own page: "The model laws have been implemented in all jurisdictions except Victoria." Victoria instead runs its own regime under the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004 (Vic), regulated by WorkSafe Victoria. The model laws use the term "person conducting a business or undertaking" (PCBU) for the duty-holder; Victoria's own Act uses "employer" — the two are not interchangeable between jurisdictions.
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Incentive and support programs
One federal program is verified and active as of 2026-08-17 — two others found in this research round (the Export Market Development Grants and the Industry Growth Program) currently have no open application round, so they are not listed here rather than shown with a stale "apply now" implication.
R&D Tax Incentive (R&DTI)
- Funder
- Department of Industry, Science and Resources (AusIndustry) and the Australian Taxation Office
- What it provides
- A tax offset for eligible research and development activity, claimed after registering the activity with AusIndustry within 10 months of the end of the income year.
- Eligibility
- Companies conducting eligible R&D activity in Australia.
Not yet confirmed: Changes announced in the 2026-27 Budget are due to start from 1 July 2028; the current rules apply until then. Confirm the current position before relying on this.
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Trade & market access
19 agreements
| Agreement | Parties | Date | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANZCERTA (CER) | New Zealand | In force 1983-01-01 | |
| SAFTA | Singapore | In force 2003-07-28 | |
| AUSFTA | United States | In force 2005-01-01 | |
| TAFTA | Thailand | In force 2005-01-01 | |
| AClFTA | Chile | In force 2009-03-06 | |
| AANZFTA | ASEAN, New Zealand | In force 2010-01-01 | date varies by member; latest, the Philippines, 2023-06-02 |
| MAFTA | Malaysia | In force 2013-01-01 | |
| KAFTA | South Korea | In force 2014-12-12 | |
| JAEPA | Japan | In force 2015-01-15 | |
| ChAFTA | China | In force 2015-12-20 | |
| CPTPP | 11 members | In force 2018-12-30 | |
| A-HKFTA + IA | Hong Kong | In force 2020-01-17 | |
| PAFTA | Peru | In force 2020-02-11 | |
| IA-CEPA | Indonesia | In force 2020-07-05 | |
| PACER Plus | Pacific countries | In force 2020-12-13 | |
| RCEP | 15 members | In force 2022-01-01 | date varies by member; latest, the Philippines, 2023-06-02 |
| ECTA | India | In force 2022-12-29 | |
| Australia-UK FTA | United Kingdom | In force 2023-05-31 | |
| Australia-UAE CEPA | United Arab Emirates | In force 2025-10-01 |
Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade · retrieved