IPS Agency Plan  

FSANZ Board members are statutory appointments.

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We will try to publish as much information as possible, consistent with the objectives of the FOI Act. Our publication practices must, however, be balanced against an obligation to respect and maintain confidential commercial information (CCI) and personal information.

FSANZ often deals with highly sensitive personal and commercial information. This type of information will only be published when the public interest test applies or consent is provided by the owner of the information. The public and stakeholders should remain confident that any CCI and/or personal information FSANZ possesses will be protected from release when it is appropriate to do this.

FSANZ will ensure documents published can be found easily and are searchable. FSANZ’s website has user-friendly navigation and an easy to find search function. FSANZ will add a link to the IPS page and disclosure log on the home page of the website.

FSANZ will publish on its website a list of any IPS documents that are impracticable to publish online. The website will state that a person seeking access to any of these documents may contact FSANZ to arrange access.

FSANZ encourages people to print copies of required documents, if they are available for download on the FSANZ website, rather than asking FSANZ to do so. FSANZ will impose a charge when we are asked to print a large number of documents. This is consistent with charges in the Freedom of Information (Charges) Regulations 1982, which generally apply to access requests, under Part III of the FOI Act.

FSANZ will publish documents on its website. If it is not possible to publish documents we will advise how the information can be obtained. Wherever possible, FSANZ will provide online content in a format that can be searched, copied and transformed.

FSANZ will, as far as possible, make its information available for reuse on open licensing terms.

FSANZ will publish all documents required under sections 8, 8(A), 8(C) and 8(D) of the FOI Act. This includes information about FSANZ’s functions, decision making powers and operational information including rules, guidelines, practices and precedents that assist the agency make decisions or recommendations affecting the public.

• Agency plan (s 8(2)(a))
• Organisational chart (s 8(2)(b))
• Statutory appointments (s 8(2)(d))
• What we do (s 8(2)(c))
• Who are we (s 8(2)c))
• Decision making powers (s 8(2)(c))
• Annual reports (s 8(2)(e))
• Information released pursuant to FOI requests (Disclosure Log) (s 8(2)(g))
• Consultation documentation (s8(2)(f))
• Operational information (s 8(2)(j))
• Contact information (s 8(2)(i))

• Roles
• Legislation
• Policy
• Reviews

• Contracts
• File Lists
• Grants reporting
• Discretionary Grants
• Publications, Statistics & Resources

Taking into account the objects of the FOI Act (s 8(4)), FSANZ will publish on the website as much information as possible to comply with the FOI Act and in the interests of full disclosure (in addition to the information published under s 8(2)).

FSANZ will publish information to its full capacity. FSANZ will be as proactive as possible in publishing both optional and operational information. In order to comply with the reforms, FSANZ will initially publish all mandated information. FSANZ’s objective is to publish all possible information in the interests of full disclosure of the documents used by the department in its functions and decision-making.

In line with the guidelines published by the OAIC, FSANZ will regularly update and maintain the information framework and be prepared for the OAIC’s audit in the 5 ‐ year review period.

FSANZ will ensure that all information is accurate and up to date at the time of publication.

All line areas will be responsible for auditing their operational documentation. FSANZ will endeavour to maintain an accurate register of information.

FSANZ’s objective is to ensure transparency and openness with the public in its decision making processes. FSANZ will ensure that comments made by the public, in relation to this Agency Plan will be taken into account and the plan amended as appropriate.