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Poppy Cultivation Licence - Victoria

Description

You will require this licence if you intend to cultivate poppies for commercial or research purposes. Cultivate means sowing, planting, growing, grafting or transplanting poppies / poppy seeds.

A licence for commercial purposes may only be granted for authorised therapeutic use. A commercial licence authorises you to:

  • cultivate or possess alkaloid poppies
  • sell or supply poppy straw to a licensed processor.

A licence for research purposes may be granted for non-therapeutic use, it authorises you to:

  • cultivate or possess alkaloid poppies
  • conduct analysis on alkaloid poppies
  • supply poppy straw to a licensed processor.

An employee of a licence holder is authorised to carry out activities permitted by the licence. The licence holder must give the employee an identification certificate. This certificate must contain the following information:

  • the employee's name
  • a clear photograph
  • employee's date of birth
  • expiry date of the Identification Certificate
  • the licence under which the Identification Certificate is given
  • any other prescribed information.

Service type

Licence

A licence defines the need to obtain recognition / certification and registration to undertake a certain business activity.

Eligibility requirements

To be eligible for this licence, you must:

  • be a suitable person to hold a licence
  • provide evidence of the commercial activity or research activity you will undertake (including evidence that any research activity will be conducted by a person with appropriate scientific training using appropriate methodology)
  • provide a proposed risk management plan
  • pay the prescribed fee
  • provide any other information required by the agency.

The agency will conduct a full investigation of your application and may conduct an inspection of the premises from which you will operate, and may require a recent police record check (National Police Certificate).

Ongoing eligibility requirements

Ongoing requirements include:

  • compliance with the risk management plan
  • employing only persons suitable to carry out activities under the licence
  • maintaining satisfactory security and surveillance measures to restrict unauthorised access to poppy straw
  • keeping records and other documents as required by the agency.

Duration

A term not exceeding three years

Fees

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Please consult the responsible agency for information on fees to be submitted with your application.

Forms

Act(s) name

Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances Act 1981 Victoria

Regulation(s) name

Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances (Poppy Cultivation and Processing) Regulations 2014 Victoria

Administering agency

Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action

Agriculture Victoria

Contact details

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