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APPENDIX 1

1. Framework For Decision Making

The framework and criteria used for my decision on the application for permission to introduce the RCD virus are set out in Appendix 2
		"Proposal for the importation of the rabbit calicivirus disease virus (RCD Virus) as a biocontrol agent".
	My report addresses the criteria set out in sections 5.1 to 5.8 inclusive of that paper.

2 Information Examined

In the course of reaching my decision on the application for permission to introduce the RCD virus, I have read extensively including the following:

• Applicant Group: Import Impact Assessment and Application to the Director General of Agriculture to approve the importation of Rabbit Calicivirus under the Animals Act 1967 and to issue an Import Health Standard under the Biosecurity Act 1993. 27 August 1996. (the Application);
• reports of the following peer reviewers on the first draft and Revision 1 of the RCD Applicant Group’s document:

			Department of Conservation
			Ministry for the Environment
			Ministry of Health
			Te Puni Kokiri
			Glen Iason, The Macaulay Land Use Research Institute
			Henrik Moller, Ecosystems Consultants
			Ministry of Agriculture
			M D Salman

• made by members of the public in response to the Application - 751 submissions;
• Baines and Associates: Analysis of Submissions on the Importation Impact Assessment for the RCD Virus, December 1996;

The reports of the following reviewers:
			Brian Boag, Scottish Crop Research Institute
			Donald S Burke, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
			Robert E Shope, University of Texas Medical Branch
			B W Manktelow, Lektos Consulting Ltd
			M D Salman, Colorado State University
			Ministry of Health
			Te Puni Kokiri
			Ministry for the Environment
			Department of Conservation
			Henrik Moller, K Brown and N Alterio, Ecosystems Consultants
			Glen Iason, Macaulay Land Use Research Institute
			Robert Fordham, Massey University

• made by 105 submitters on the reviewers’ reports;

Ministry for the Environment:
				Sustainable Land Management Strategy, June 1996;
	Bureau of Resource Sciences:
				Rabbit Calicivirus disease: A report under the Biological Control Act 1984, August 1996;
	Wright, D E:
			Report on a New Zealand Science Strategy for Rabbit Calicivirus Disease, Ministry of Research Science and Technology Report Number 48, July 1996;
	Bureau of Resource Sciences and CSIRO Division of Wild life and Ecology:
						Managing Vertebrate Pests: Rabbits, 1995;
	Working Party on Sustainable Land Management:
						South Island High Country Review, April 1994;
	Druett, Joan:
		Exotic Intruders: The Introduction of Plants and Animals into New Zealand, Heinemann Publishers, Auckland, 1983.

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