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Title

NOTICES

Presentation

Database

Senate Hansard

Date

07-02-2001

Source

Senate

Parl No.

39

Electorate

Western Australia

Interjector

 

Page

21519

Party

LP

Presenter

 

Status

Final

Question No.

 

Questioner

 

Responder

 

Speaker

Campbell, Sen Ian

Stage

Presentation

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Context

Notices

System Id

chamber/hansards/2001-02-07/0163


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Wednesday, 7 February 2001
Page: 21519


Senator IAN CAMPBELL (Manager of Government Business in the Senate) (3:59 PM) —I give notice that, on the next day of sitting, I shall move:

That the provisions of paragraphs (5) to (7) of standing order 111 not apply to the Australia New Zealand Food Authority Amendment Bill 2001, allowing it to be considered during this period of sittings.

I also table a statement of reasons justifying the need for the Australia New Zealand Food Authority Amendment Bill to be considered during these sittings and seek leave to have the statement incorporated in Hansard.

Leave granted.

The statement read as follows—

STATEMENT OF REASONS FOR INTRODUCTION AND PASSAGE IN THE 2001 AUTUMN SITTINGS

AUSTRALIA NEW ZEALAND FOOD AUTHORITY AMENDMENT BILL 2001

Purpose of the Bill

This Bill will amend the Australia New Zealand Food Authority Act 1991 to:

ยท implement those aspects of the food regulatory model developed in response to the Food Regulation Review (Blair) Report, that were agreed to by COAG and that require legislative change, including:

- establishing the proposed Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) statutory authority to replace the Australia New Zealand Food Authority;

- enabling FSANZ to develop all food standards relating to food production that are to be adopted nationally; and

- amending the current standards development process to reflect the role of the proposed Australia and New Zealand Food Regulation Ministerial Council, including the development by FSANZ of standards that comply with policy guidelines developed by the Ministerial Council.

Reasons for Urgency

States and Territories will expect the Commonwealth to make the legislative changes necessary to implement the proposed new food regulatory system agreed to by COAG as soon as possible.

Introduction and passage of the Bill in one sittings will enable the whole of the proposed new system, including FSANZ, to commence operation within three years of the publication of the Report of the Food Regulation (Blair) Review.

Failure to pass this Bill in the Autumn sittings would result in continuation of the complex and partial transitional arrangements specified in the related Inter-Governmental Agreement on Food Regulation until FSANZ is established.

Under the transitional arrangements ANZFA would continue to develop and recommend to the new Ministerial Council for adoption those types of food standards it currently recommends to the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Council.

The new Ministerial Council will also have responsibility for the development of all domestic food regulatory policy, and policy guidelines for the development of all domestic food standards that are adopted nationally, but it will not yet have the related power to seek a review of such standards. Early passage of the Bill will enable FSANZ to develop all such standards in accordance with policy developed by the new Ministerial Council as soon as possible.

(Circulated by authority of the Minister for Health and Aged Care)