Regulatory impact statements
A regulatory impact statement (RIS) provides a high-level summary of the problem being addressed, the options and their associated costs and benefits, the consultation undertaken, and the proposed arrangements for implementation and review.
To help ensure that the regulatory process is open and transparent, RISs prepared to support the consideration of regulatory proposals are published at the time the relevant bill is introduced to Parliament or the regulation is gazetted, or at the time of Ministerial release.
From 1 October 2024, RISs are published on the Ministry for Regulation's website and on this page.
RISs published prior to 1 October 2024 are on the Treasury website and on this page.
2025
- Cost Recovery Impact Statement: Recovering the cost of goods management - cover sheet (PDF, 837 KB)
- Recovering the costs of goods management: Stage 2 cost recovery impact statement (PDF, 1.2 MB)
2024
- Regulatory Impact Statement - modernising Customs cost recovery regime (PDF, 228 KB)
- Cost recovery impact assessment - border processing levies (PDF, 1.8 MB)
2023
- CRIS Inflation adjustment to Customs Goods Fee Rates (PDF, 463 KB)
2022
- RIS New Zealand Traveller Declaration Tranche 3 Enforcement (PDF, 917 KB)
- RIS Compliance and Enforcement of the Traveller Health Declaration System (PDF, 6 MB)
- RIS New Zealand Traveller Declaration Tranche 3 Information sharing and administration settings (PDF, 1.6 MB)
- RIS: Amending how excise and excise-equivalent duty is calculated, and making flavoured tobacco a prohibited import to stop tax evasion (PDF, 2 MB)
2020
2019
- Stage 2 Cost Recovery Impact Statement (PDF, 3.43 MB)
- Impact Summary: Process to seize, store and dispose of tobacco imported legally (PDF, 995 KB)
2018
- RIS: Infringement Notice Scheme under C&E Act 2018 (PDF, 397.18)
- Impact Statement: Maritime Powers Extension Bill (PDF, 2.94 MB)
- Impact Summary: Time limit for Customs valuations rulings (PDF, 334.56 KB)