Compliance and Enforcement Framework 2023 - 2025

This framework will help people understand their legal obligations when dealing with controlled drugs, and the regulatory and administrative tools we use to ensure compliance.

We take a risk-based approach to compliance and enforcement for activities undertaken by narcotic drug industries in Australia.

The framework outlines how we will:

• encourage compliance by educating persons about their responsibilities
• analyse emerging risks to identify any need to adjust our compliance and enforcement focus and resources
• manage identified non-compliance, using administrative action or formal enforcement proceedings where necessary
• work with other agencies to coordinate compliance approaches and refer potential offences that are outside our remit.

Content

• Introduction
• Legislative requirements
• Risk-based approach to compliance
• Compliance Monitoring
• Intelligence collection and analysis
• Stakeholder Engagement and Education
• Prioritisation
• Compliance Inspections
• Investigations
• Enforcement
• Administrative Law Principles