Appendices
Terms and Definitions
New Zealand Organisations and Terminology
| Biodiversity | The variety of all indignous biological life and ecosystems |
| Biosecurity | The exclusion, eradication or effective management of the risks posed by pests and diseases or unwanted organisms to the economy, environment and human health |
| Biosecurity Strategy | The strategy for New Zealand, first published in 2003, sets out an overall direction for biosecurity, and contains a detailed list of expectations for the next five years |
| District Health Boards | District authorities that work with NZFSA in implementing food safety regulation |
| Economic Transformation | The government priority toward which MAF contributes most |
| FIDA | Forestry Industry Development Agenda - provides a means for central government and the industry to develop a strategic approach for the industry's future growth |
| Govt3 | The government-wide programme run by the Ministry for the Environment to help central government agencies become more sustainable |
| Impact Measures | The performance measures for MAF's intermediate outcomes which seek to quantify the difference MAF's interventions and activities have made |
| Incursion | An occurrence of an organism not previously known to be established in New Zealand. Does not include interceptions |
| NAEAC | The National Animal Ethics Advisory Committee - provides independent advice to the Minister of Agriculture on policy and practices relating to the use of animals in research, testing and teaching |
| NAWAC | The National Animal Welfare Advisory Committee - provides advice to the Minister of Agriculture on issues relating to the welfare of animals, and develops and advises the Minister on codes of welfare |
| Outcomes | The impacts on, or the consequences for, the community of the outputs or activities of the Ministry (but also influenced by others) |
| Outputs | The goods or services produced by the Ministry |
| Performance Measures | Qualitative or quantitative indicators of the level and quality of organisational resource use and efficiency (inputs), production and service delivery (outputs) and the results achieved (outcomes) |
| SDPoA | Sustainable Development Programme of Action - the New Zealand Government's view of the way forward on sustainable development issues |
| Sectors | The agricultural (including horticulture), food and forestry sectors |
| SFF | MAF's Sustainable Farming Fund |
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| CEPs | Closer Economic Partnerships - focus on the liberalisation of trade between two or more economies |
| CODEX | The internationally recognised standards setting body for food safety. Its full name is the Joint FAO/WHO Codex Alimentarius Commission |
| Doha Round | Comprehensive trade negotiations in the WTO named after the Qatari city where the negotiations were launched in 2001 (also referred to as the “Doha Development Agenda”) |
| FSANZ | Food Standards Australia New Zealand - a bi-national independent statutory authority that develops food standards for composition, labelling and contaminants, including microbiological limits, applying to all foods produced or imported for sale in Australia and New Zealand |
| FTAs | Free Trade Agreements - designed to liberalise trade between countries. Includes CEPs and Strategic Economic Partnerships |
| Kyoto Protocol | A stand-alone international agreement linked to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. It builds on the Convention by adding new, stronger and more complete, commitments to help reduce climate change |
| OIE | Also known as the World Organisation for Animal Health - deals with animal health and zoonoses (diseases of animals transmissible to humans) and sets sanitary standards for the international trade in animals and animal products |
| P4 | The “Pacific 4” - Brunei, Chile, Singapore and New Zealand in a Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement |
| SPS Agreement | The WTO Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures - sets out basic rules for food safety and animal and plant health standards |
| WTO | The World Trade Organisation - the global international organisation dealing with the rules of trade between nations |
Contact for Enquiries
Strategy and Performance Group
Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
Pastoral House
25 The Terrace
PO Box 2526, Wellington
Tel: +64 4 894 0100
Fax: +64 4 894 0738
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