ARCtick licence fees frozen for 2024

Fees for ARCtick licence applications have been frozen for 2024 as part of a Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW) initiative to ensure licences are financially accessible at a time when many are facing cost-of-living pressures.

Australian Refrigeration Council (ARC) CEO Glenn Evans said the freeze on application fees reflected a shared commitment by ARC and DCCEEW to keep business costs down and described the announcement as “making this one of the few business costs that will not increase this year”.

“ARC has long advocated to keep fee increases as low as possible, and we are delighted that the Department has taken this initiative,’ he said.

“Fees are normally indexed annually based on the Wage Price Index, which would have resulted in a 4.1 per cent increase on 1 January this year.”