Export licence roles and permissions

Who can submit an application for a meat or livestock export licence.

Whether you can submit or only draft and view a meat or livestock export licence application depends on: 

  • your identity strength
  • your commodity
  • whether you are listed in management or control on the export licence
  • your role in the Export Service. 

Licence permissions by identity strength

Meat exports

View and draft

You must have ‘Standard’ ID or stronger, and be: 

  • listed in management or control on the licence, or
  • assigned a ‘Principal Authority (Owner)’ or ‘Manager’ role in the Export Service for any export licence your business holds.

Submit

You must have ‘Standard’ ID or stronger, and be: 

  • listed in management or control on the licence, or
  • assigned a ‘Principal Authority (Owner)’ role in the Export Service for any export licence your business holds. 

Live animal exports 

View and draft 

You must have ‘Basic’ ID or stronger, and be: 

  • listed in management or control on the licence, or
  • assigned a ‘Principal Authority (Owner)’ or ‘Manager’ role in the Export Service for any export licence your business holds. 

Submit

You must have ‘Standard’ ID or stronger, and be: 

  • listed in management or control on the licence, or
  • assigned a ‘Principal Authority (Owner)’ role in the Export Service for any export licence your business holds.

Licence permissions by role 

Licence permissions to view, draft and submit licence applications vary for different roles in the Export Service. Permissions are reduced for Managers, Users and Agents if you are not listed in management and control on the licence. 

Principal Authority (Owner) 

If you are a Principal Authority (Owner) in the Export Service, you will have permissions to view, draft and submit licence applications whether or not you are listed in management and control. 

Manager 

If you have a Manager role in the Export Service:  

  • you will be able to view and draft licence applications whether or not you are listed in management or control
  • you will have to be listed in management and control before you are able to submit licence applications. 

User/Agent 

If you have a User or Agent role in the Export Service, you will only have permissions to perform these actions if you have been listed in management or control. 

Table 1

These are the licensing roles and permissions for people listed in management or control on a licence.

Export Service rolePrincipal Authority (Owner)ManagerUser  Agent
View licence application

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Draft licence applications

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Submit licence applications

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Table 2 

These are the licensing roles and permissions for people not listed in management or control on a licence.

For more information, go to Accept an invite to act for a business

Export Service rolePrincipal Authority (Owner)ManagerUser Agent
View licence application

Yes

Yes

No

No

Draft licence applications

Yes

Yes

No

No

Submit licence applications

Yes

No

No

No

To find out what permissions these people have in the Export Service, go to Roles and access levels in the Export Service

How to be added to management or control 

If you need to be listed in management or control on an export licence, ask someone assigned an Export Service role of ‘Principal authority (Owner)’ or ‘Manager’ to add you. To do this, they will need to submit an application to vary the licence.

Sharing of sensitive information

When you invite someone to act for a business, personal and sensitive information may be shared with relevant employees. For you or anyone else listed on the licence, this may include: 

  • contact details
  • responses to the fit and proper person test. 

Export Service roles are different to your business role 

There are 4 roles in the Export Service: ‘Principal Authority (Owner)’, ‘Manager’, ‘User’ and ‘Agent’. These roles control what you can see and do in the service. They are separate from your position in the business.

For more information go to Roles and access levels in the Export Service.

Need more help?

Email exportservice@aff.gov.auCall 1800 571 125, Monday to Friday, 9 am to 5 pm AEST