Fees for biosecurity entity registration and renewal

You must pay registration and renewal fees if you:

You do not need to pay the fee if you do not claim primary producer status on your tax return, but you must still be registered as a biosecurity entity.

Keeping bees as well as livestock or birds

If you keep livestock or birds, and also keep beehives (except native beehives), your livestock and apiary registrations will be separate.

Pay the registration and renewal fees

View the current fees. Fees are subject to increases in-line with the consumer price index (CPI).

If you are a commercial primary producer, you must pay the fee when you:

  • register for the first time
  • confirm your registration every 3 years.

You can pay your fee online when you confirm your registration details by logging into your account on the biosecurity entity registration portal.

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How registration fees are used

Biosecurity entity registration allows us to better:

  • prepare for biosecurity emergencies
  • respond to biosecurity risks
  • trace the origin and spread of a pest or disease.

The biosecurity entity registration system also provides benefits to commercial primary producers, including:

  • access to industry quality assurance programs
  • improved market access
  • lower biosecurity risk as registration enables us to manage biosecurity risks better.

Registration and renewal fees help deliver these benefits by contributing to the cost of:

As the system delivers public benefits and flow-on benefits to other industries, the Queensland Government subsidises 66% of the registration and renewal fees.