Annual Review of Regulatory Burdens on Business - Primary Sector
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This research report was released on 19 December 2007.
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- Preliminaries (PDF - 184 Kb)
Cover, Copyright, Foreword, Terms of reference, Contents and Abbreviations - Overview - including key points (PDF - 55 Kb)
- Responses (PDF - 56 Kb)
- Chapter 1 About the review (PDF - 51 Kb)
1.1 What the Commission has been asked to do
1.2 Previous and current reviews and inquiries concerning regulatory reform
1.3 COAG's National Reform Agenda
1.4 The approach and rationale of this review
1.5 Conduct of the study
1.6 Structure of the report - Chapter 2 Primary sector characteristics (PDF - 65 Kb)
2.1 Industry characteristics
2.2 Industry performance - Chapter 3 Agriculture (PDF - 445 Kb)
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act
3.3 Biosecurity and quarantine
3.4 National Pollutant Inventory
3.5 Climate change policies
3.6 Regulation of livestock exports
3.7 Reef Water Quality Protection Plan
3.8 Security sensitive chemicals
3.9 Transport issues in agriculture
3.10 Wheat marketing
3.11 Animal welfare
3.12 Drought support
3.13 Occupational health and safety
3.14 Food regulation
3.15 National Livestock Identification Scheme
3.16 Temporary labour
3.17 Biodiesel
3.18 Agricultural and veterinary chemicals
3.19 Horticulture Code of Conduct
3.20 Farm surveys
3.21 Genetically modified crops
3.22 Water issues
3.23 Incorporation of farms
3.24 Other concerns - Chapter 4 Mining, oil and gas (PDF - 322 Kb)
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Uranium-specific regulation
4.3 Petroleum-specific regulation
4.4 Access to land
4.5 Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act
4.6 National Pollutant Inventory
4.7 Assessment of site contamination
4.8 Climate change policies
4.9 Labour skills and mobility
4.10 Transport infrastructure
4.11 Safety and health - Chapter 5 Forestry, fishing and aquaculture (PDF - 106 Kb)
5.1 Forestry
5.2 Fishing
5.3 Aquaculture - Appendix A Consultation (PDF - 25 Kb)
A.1 Introduction
A.2 Submissions
A.3 Consultations with organisations and individuals - Appendix B Selected reviews (PDF - 24 Kb)
- appendix C Common concerns and some lessons (PDF - 46 Kb)
C.1 Common regulatory concerns
C.2 Lessons from this review
C.3 Principles of good regulatory practice - Appensdix D Regulation review by jurisdiction (PDF - 22 Kb)
- References (PDF - 46 Kb)
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