Funding to encourage ongoing investment and innovation in the Australian automotive industry

What are the eligibility criteria?

Applications for registration in the ATS are open to:

• Australian motor vehicle producers (MVPs)
• Australian automotive component producers (ACPs)
• Australian automotive machine tool and automotive tooling producers (AMTPs)
• Australian automotive service providers (ASPs)

Businesses including individual companies or a group of companies can apply.

Motor vehicle producers

You must either:

• produce at least 30,000 motor vehicles annually in Australia, or
• produce at least 30,000 engines annually in Australia.

Automotive component producers

• You must produce at least one kind of automotive component in Australia for use as original equipment in at least 30,000 motor vehicles or engines annually, and
• The production value for that component must be at least $500,000 in the previous 12 months

Or:

• You must produce automotive components in Australia for use as original equipment with a production value of at least $500,000 annually, and
• The production value must be at least 50% of the value of all automotive components produced by you in that period.

Automotive machine tool and automotive tooling producers

• You must produce automotive machine tools or automotive tooling in Australia with a production value of at least $500,000 annually, and
• At least 50% of that production value must be for tools and tooling used to produce original equipment.

Automotive Service Providers

• You must provide automotive services in Australia with a production value of at least $500,000 a year, and
• At least 50% of that production value was for services related to production of motor vehicles or original equipment

Applications for registration may also be assessed on forward sales and production values.

If you do not meet the eligibility criteria

You may seek Ministerial permission to apply for registration in the national interest. The details of how to apply are in Customer Guideline 4 – Registration in the national interest.

How do you apply?

The Automotive Transformation Scheme (ATS) is closed to applications.