This MPI Regulatory Impact Statement provides an analysis of options for cost recovery under the Food Act 2014 (the Food Act).

This Regulatory Impact Statement has been prepared by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. Its purpose is to support a Cabinet paper that recommends extending the Dairy Industry Restructuring Act 2001 (DIRA) pro-competition provisions beyond their current expiry thresholds.

This Regulatory Impact Statement provides analysis of options to promote transparency of, and confidence in, Fonterra’s milk price setting process and consistency of its outcomes with those arising in a contestable market for farmers’ milk; and ensure that Fonterra’s capital structure is designed and implemented in a way that allows New Zealand dairy farmers to enter and exit Fonterra in a timely manner and at efficient share prices.

This regulatory impact statement analyses two additional policy proposals for inclusion in the Food Safety Law Reform Bill. The first will allow New Zealand to meet its obligations under the trans-Tasman Food Treaty, and improves the flexibility of the legislation to meet future market demand. The second will avoid potential delays in issuing privileged statements in a food safety incident.

This Regulatory Impact Statement provides an analysis of proposals to address some of the recommendations made by the independent Government Inquiry into the Whey Protein Concentrate Contamination Incident (WPC Inquiry) as well as proposals to make other improvements to the food safety system.

This Regulatory Impact Statement provides an analysis of options to address regulatory barriers and implementation issues with Part 3A of the Forests Act 1949.

This Regulatory Impact Statement has been prepared by the Ministry for Primary Industries. It provides an analysis of options for increasing the fortification of bread with folic acid in order to reduce the incidence of neural tube defect (NTD) affected pregnancies in New Zealand, and their associated economic and social costs.

This Regulatory Impact Statement provides an analysis of levys to fund 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.

This Regulatory Impact Statement provides an analysis of a proposal that government and industry enter into joint agreements whereby priority organisms are identified, consensus decisions are made about how best to carry out activities, and the costs of those activities are shared.

This Regulatory Impact Statement has been prepared by the Ministry for Primary Industries. It provides an analysis of options for the management of Foreign Charter Vessels, following a Ministerial Inquiry into the use and operation of Foreign Charter Vessels in New Zealand.

In April 2015, the Government agreed to impose a Levy to recover the costs incurred by MPI and Customs in delivering their respective functions in relation to people arriving and departing from New Zealand.