Annual Review of Regulatory Burdens on Business: Manufacturing and Distributive Trades

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• Preliminaries (PDF - 38 Kb)
  Cover, Copyright, Opportunity for further comment, Terms of reference, Foreword, Contents and Abbreviations
• Overview (PDF - 74 Kb)
• 1 About the review (PDF - 41 Kb)
  1.1    What the Commission has been asked to do
  1.2    The regulatory reform context
  1.3    The approach and rationale of this review
  1.4    Conduct of the study
  1.5    Structure of the report

• 2 Industry characteristics and performance (PDF - 79 Kb)
  2.1    Industry size and characteristics
  2.2    Industry performance
  2.2    Industry performance
  2.3    Value chains and the impact of regulation
• 3 Food regulation (PDF - 94 Kb)
  3.1    Inconsistency
  3.2    Delays and difficulties in implementing and amending food standards
  3.3    Improving the operations of the Australia New Zealand Food Regulation Ministerial Council
  3.4    Problems in the regulation-making process
  3.5    Food regulation and public health
  3.6    Nutrition, health and related food claims
  3.7    Labelling requirements impacting on pick 'n' mix confectionary
  3.8    Other issues
• 4 Therapeutic goods regulation (PDF - 183 Kb)
  4.1    Overview of regulation
  4.2    Concerns about regulation of medicines
  4.3    Overview of medical devices regulation
  4.4    Concerns about medical devices regulation
• 5 Chemicals and veterinary medicines (PDF - 67 Kb)
  5.1    Background
  5.2    Concerns about the regulatory framework for chemicals
  5.3    Regulation of veterinary chemicals and medicines
  5.4    Concerns about the APVMA
  5.5    Concerns about AQIS
• 6 Environmental regulation (PDF - 119 Kb)
  6.1    Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards (WELS) Scheme
  6.2    Climate change policies and programs
  6.3    Energy labelling and minimum energy performance standards
  6.4    National Pollutant Inventory (NPI)
  6.5    National Packaging Covenant
  6.6    Ozone protection: pre-charged equipment
  6.7    Container deposit legislation
• 7 Regulatory issues in the distributive trades (PDF - 24 Kb)
  7.1    Tobacco retailing
  7.2    Anti Monetary Laundering and Counter Terrorism Financing Act 2006
  7.3    Motor vehicle and motor vehicle parts wholesaling and retailing
  7.4    Food premises and assistance animals
  7.5    Regulatory restrictions on the sale of certain food in government facilities
• 8 Other concerns (PDF - 94 Kb)
  8.1    Skills shortage, labour mobility issues and skilled migration
  8.2    Occupational, health and safety (OHS) and workers' compensation
  8.3    Equal opportunity reporting requirements
  8.4    Customs and excise administration
  8.5    GST
  8.6    Transport regulation
  8.7    Australian Design Rules
  8.8    Regulation of building products
• Appendix A - Consultation (PDF - 15 Kb)
  A.1    Introduction
  A.2    Submissions
  A.3    Consultations with organisations and individuals
• Appendix B - Reviews of regulation (PDF - 17 Kb)
• References (PDF - 27 Kb)