5Objective 5—Cost recovery

5 Objective 5—Cost recovery

5.1 In managing the SBT Fishery under this Plan, AFMA will pursue the objective of achieving Government targets in relation to the recovery of the costs of AFMA. 5.2 The measures by which this objective is to be attained include that AFMA prepare annual budgets and recommend levies to recover attributable and recoverable costs of management and research in the SBT Fishery in accordance with Government cost recovery policy. 5.3 The performance criteria against which the measures taken will be assessed include the following: (a) that AFMA has prepared annual budgets, and recommendations for levies have been agreed to by the AFMA Board; (b) that Government targets for cost recovery have been achieved through AFMA’s cost recovery policy.