Annual Report 2010-11Compliance Index

2010-11 Compliance Index

This Annual Report has been prepared in accordance with the APVMA’s statutory obligations. These obligations are outlined in the Requirements for Annual Reports for Departments, Executive Agencies and FMA Act Bodies revised by the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet in July 2011 and the Adminstration Act.

The reporting requirements have been identified under the legislation or requirements to which they relate, noting that a number of requirements are common to both.

Requirements for Annual Reports for Departments, Executive Agencies and FMA Act Bodies

Letter of transmittal

Table of contents

Alphabetical Index

Glossary

Contact officer(s)

Internet home page address and Internet address for report

Review by agency head

CEO’s Report

Overview of authority’s performance and financial results

Outlook

Agency overview

Overview description of agency

Role and functions

Organisational structure

Outcome structure

Variation between program outcome/structure and PB statements

Report on performance

Review of performance during the year in relation to outputs and contribution to outcomes

Actual performance in relation to performance targets set out in PBS/PAES

Where performance targets differ from the PBS/PAES, details of both former and new targets, and resons for change

Narrative discussion of analysis and performance

Trend information

Performance against service charter

Discussion and analysis of the authority’s financial performance

Agency resource statement and summary resource tables by outcomes

Developments since the end of financial year that have affected or may significantly affect the department’s operations or financial results in the future

Management accountability and corporate governance

Statement of the main corporate governance practices in place

Names of the senior executive and their responsibilities

Senior management committees and their roles

Corporate and operational planning and associated performance reporting and review

Approach adopted to identifying areas of significant financial or operational risk and arrangements in place to manage risks

External scrutiny

Significant developments in external scrutiny

Judicial decisions and decisions of administrative tribunals

Reports by the Auditor-General, Parliamentary Committee and the Commonwealth Ombudsman

Management of human resources

Assessment of effectiveness in managing and developing human resources to achieve agency objectives

Workforce planning, staff turnover and retention

Training and development undertaken and its impact

Occupational health and safety performance

Statistics on staffing

Collective agreements, determinations, common law contracts and AWAs

Performance pay

Assets management

Assessment of effectiveness of assets management

Purchasing

Assessment of purchasing against core policies and principles

Consultants

Summary statement noting information on consultatices and contracts

ANAO access clauses

Absence of provisions in contracts allowing access by the Auditor-General

Exempt contracts

Contracts exempt from the AusTender

National disability strategy

Report on performance in implementing the National Disability Strategy

Financial statements

Financial Statements

Other information

Occupational health and safety

Freedom of Information

Advertising and market research

Ecologically sustainable development and environmental performance

Grant programs

Correction of material errors in previous annual report

Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals (Administration) Act 1992

Assessment of contribution of operations to objectives set out in the:

Corporate Plan

Annual Operational Plan

Variations (if any) of the Corporate Plan and Annual Operational Plan

Purchases and disposals of real property

Directions given to the APVMA by the Minister to which subsection 10(3) applies and the impacts of the direction

Evaluation of overall performance against performance indicators set out in the Corporate and Annual Operational Plan