Regulatory Impact Statements
- New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme
[89K PDF]
February 2010
This Act enables New Zealand to meet its international obligations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol to this convention. The Act provides for the implementation, operation and administration of a greenhouse gas emissions trading scheme in New Zealand that supports and encourages global efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. - Animal Welfare Amendment Bill 2010
February 2010
This Regulatory Impact Statement (RIS) deals with proposed amendments to the Animal Welfare Act 1999. The purpose of the amendments are to improve the way offences relating to the ill-treatment and neglect of animals are prescribed in the Act, and to increase the penalties for this type of offending. The RIS also considers proposed changes to the provisions enabling the court to disqualify a person from having custody of animals, and to order forfeiture of animals to the Crown or to an approved organisation. Taken together, MAF believes the amendments will strengthen the Act’s provisions and enable serious offending against animals to be dealt with more effectively. - ETS Forestry Regulations, post-1989 Forests [240K PDF]
June 2008
These regulations under the Climate Change Response Act 2002 set out provisions for forestry participants in the Emissions Trading Scheme. The provisions for participants who have pre-1990 forest land include the information to be collected, and how the emissions from deforestation are to be calculated. For participants with post-1989 forest land, the provisions include how forests are to be mapped, the information to be collected, and how carbon stock changes are to be calculated. - Walking Access – organisational structure, legislation and funding: Regulatory Impact Statement
December 2007
The problem is the lack of authoritative information about public walking access rights to the countryside, the lack of adequate public access to and along the coast and rivers, to and around lakes and to other public land, the impact of changes in land ownership on voluntary access arrangements, and the lack of any satisfactory means of resolving disputes over access. - Regulatory Impact and Business Compliance Costs Statement: Amendment to the Dairy Industry (Herd Testing and New Zealand Dairy Core Database) Regulations 2001 to adopt revised Herd Testing Standard (NZS 8100)
July 2007
Lack of efficiency in herd testing, which adds to the cost of herd testing, has led to declining participation. This reduces the effectiveness of animal evaluation and sire selection and therefore, the rate of genetic progress in the dairy industry. - Regulatory Impact and Business Compliance Costs Statement: Proposed Biosecurity (Costs) Regulations 2006; Sea Container Levy 2006 and Biosecurity Risk Screening Levy 2006
July 2006
Under the Biosecurity (Costs) Regulations 2003, MAF charges importers and other parties for biosecurity-related cargo clearance services. MAF has reviewed its charges and identified some under cost recovery and some inequitable application of charges and difficulties in administering the current regime. MAF is seeking to replace the 2003 regulations made under the Biosecurity Act 1993 with new regulations and to recommend two new levies under the Biosecurity Act, the biosecurity risk screening levy and the sea container levy. - Regulatory Impact and Business Compliance Cost Statement: Permanent Forest Sink Initiative
January 2005
On 10 December 2002, the Government ratified the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). - Amendments to Veterinarian (Fees) Regulations 1999
9 July 2004
The Veterinary Council of New Zealand (the Council), established under the Veterinarians Act 1994 (the Act), has two main functions: the registration of veterinarians and specialists and the hearing of complaints against veterinarians and specialists. - Regulatory Impact And Business Compliance Costs Statement: Dairy Industry (Application Fees And Fonterra Levy) Regulations 2004
28 May 2004
The Commerce Commission (the Commission) is empowered to enforce the Act and its regulatory provisions. Fonterra should bear the majority of the costs of enforcing the necessary legislative package, given it is the dominant entity and prime beneficiary of the Commerce Act 1986 authorisation. - Regulatory Impact Statement: Application for a Levy to Fund the American Foulbrood National Pest Strategy
20 February 2004
American foulbrood (AFB) is a disease of honey bee colonies caused by the bacterium Paenibacillus larvae larvae. AFB causes total hive mortality. With good management it is possible to reduce the incidence of the disease in hives to below economically significant levels. - Regulatory Impact Statement: Amendments To The Game Industry Board Regulations 1985
20 February 2004
The Game Industry Board, a statutory body, promotes and assists in the development of the deer industry and of markets for deer products. The Board funds industry good activities such as quality assurance programmes, research and development, TB control and product promotion from a compulsory levy imposed on farmed deer and velvet under the Regulations. - Regulatory Impact Statement: Wool Board Disestablishment
14 October 2003
In a referendum held in April-May 2002, 96.9 percent of wool grower respondents voted in favour of winding up the Wool Board. Participation rate in this referendum of 35.5 percent of wool growers is close to the average achieved in other referenda in primary sector, and is not unexpected given the large size of the industry and its wide geographic spread. - Regulatory Impact Statement: Meat Board Restructuring
13 October 2003
The Meat Board Act 1997 provides the New Zealand Meat Board (a statutory entity) with powers to collect compulsory levies on meat to support a range of activities, including research and development, information provision, market access and promotion, and other trade related activities. The levy imposed by the Act is not subject to the voting and other accountability provisions of the Commodity Levies Act 1990 (the CLA). There is also duplication of levy administration as meat and wool levies are administered separately. - Regulatory Impact and Business Compliance Costs Statement: Amendment to the Dairy Industry (Herd Testing and New Zealand Dairy Core Database) Regulations 2001 - Research Exemption
5 June 2003
The public policy objective is to enhance research flexibility and reduce disincentives for research, by reducing compliance costs for researchers, while safeguarding the provision of data to the core database. - Application for a Commodity Levy Order on Satsuma Madarins
19 March 2003
An application has been received under the Act for a commodity levy order on satsuma mandarins grown in New Zealand for commercial purposes. - Application for Commodity Levy Order on Milksolids
19 March 2003
An application has been received under the Act for a commodity levy order on milksolids produced in New Zealand by dairy farmers (owners and sharemilkers) and for supply to a dairy company. - Amendments to the Veterinarians Act 1994
17 Feb 2003
The Veterinarians Act 1994 establishes the Veterinary Council of New Zealand. Experience has shown that making regulations to implement a significant number of areas of the Act limits flexibility. The preferred option is to amend the Act, so that the framework can be retained for protecting the public but made less prescriptive and more flexible. - Regulatory Impact and Cost Compliance Statement: Seven Applications for Vegetables:
7 Nov 2001
The New Zealand Vegetable and Potato Growers Federation Incorporated (Vegfed) has applied under the Commodity Levies Act 1990 (the Act) for a commodity levy order on Asparagus, Export Squash, Fresh Tomatoes, Fresh Vegetables, Process Tomatoes, Process Vegetables and Potatoes, produced for export or for processing or consumption in New Zealand. - Application For A Commodity Levy Order On Avocados
24 Sep 2001
The levy will fund research and development, promotion, market development, grower education and information, market access, crop estimation, quality management, quality assurance, and the administration of the Avocado Growers Association. - Application For A Commodity Levy Order On Blackcurrants
24 Sep 2001
The levy is wanted to fund research and development, as well as generic promotion, the administration of BCNZ, a contribution to the management of New Zealand Berryfruit Growers' Federation (Berryfed) and quality management. - Application For A Commodity Levy Order On Blueberries
24 Sep 2001
The levy is wanted to fund research and development, as well as generic promotion, the administration of BBNZ, a contribution to the management of New Zealand Berryfruit Growers' Federation (Berryfed) and quality management. - Application For A Commodity Levy Order On Deer Products
24 Sep 2001
The levy will fund production related research, technology transfer, provision of information and advice to deer farmers, consultation with farmers and others in the interests of farmers, representation of the views of farmers, promotion of the industry within New Zealand, public relations, and administration of the New Zealand Deer Farmers' Association. - Application for Commodity Levies on Orchard Fruit
24 Sep 2001
The levy will fund research and development, market development and promotion, education and information, representing the views of fruitgrowers, and the administration of the New Zealand Fruitgrowers Federation. - Application for Commodity Levies on Feijoas
30 May 2001
The levy will be spent on product development, education and training, promotion, market research and development, and the administration of the Association.
Contact for Enquiries
MAF Information Services
Pastoral House
25 The Terrace
PO Box 2526
Wellington, NEW ZEALAND
Fax: +64 4 894 0721
Contact this person
