Regulation Minister David Seymour, Environment Minister Penny Simmonds, and Food Safety Minister Andrew Hoggard have today announced a regulatory sector review on the approval process for new agricultural and horticultural products.
“Red tape stops farmers and growers from getting access to products that have been approved by other OECD countries. It can take nine years and wrangling government agencies to get approval here,” said Seymour.
“Farmers overseas are using innovative technologies that we don’t have access to that make animals emit less methane, make fruit and vegetable plants grow faster, and control pests and diseases with less environmental harm.
“If we don’t remove these barriers to productivity, we will fall behind our global competitors when we need to grow the economy through trade.
“New products need approval from the Environmental Protection Authority and New Zealand Food Safety. The review will look at the process and the overlap between regulators. It will not cover gene technology which will be done separately.
“New Zealand farmers and growers are among the most efficient in the world. What the Government needs to do is reduce barriers and let them continue to make positive change”.
Simmonds said she welcomes the review by the Ministry for Regulation.
“Having been involved with farming all my life, the value of our agriculture and horticulture industries is clear to me. I understand the daily frustrations with red tape that farmers and growers face while they make a significant contribution to our economy. It is only through a strong economy that we can reduce inflation, lift incomes and afford the quality public services Kiwis deserve,” she said.
Hoggard said New Zealand’s farming and food safety reputation underpins the sector’s export success.
“We need access to new technologies and products to keep ahead of the game. Our primary sector will contribute $54.6 billion in export revenue this year. That’s about 80 per cent of all merchandise exports.”
The Ministry for Regulation is developing terms of reference and timetable for the review.
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https://www.treasury.govt.nz/sites/default/files/2024-01/bim-regulation-2023.pdf
Thank you for this VERY interesting and informative link.
Not many people/voters would know the far-reaching arm of the UNELECTED treasury troupe, headed by Nicola Willis whom you surely have googled.
Most of the public servants of the NZ treasury hold pivoting positions since many years if not since many decades! So the colour red or blue does NOT matter. But you knew that, didn’t you?
As detailed in the link above, the treasury is THE advisory for Public Services, so also directly an advisory part of the totalitarian covid act: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_Public_Health_Response_Act_2020
They espouse, according to page 9 of above link, “to act with a spirit of service to the community [they] serve by upholding the five values of the public service: impartial, accountable, trustworthy, respectful and responsive.”
Most of the top echelon has ties to entities like World Bank, IMF, APAC, OECD, so which community do they serve?
We can now look forward to the “impartial and comprehensive covid inquiry”, can we?
Shows the adage is truer than ever: “You can boot politicians/governments every three years. Bureaucrazy is forever.”
Here is the personnel:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caralee_McLiesh (Aussi)
https://www.treasury.govt.nz/contacts/struan-little
https://www.treasury.govt.nz/contacts/leilani-frew
https://www.treasury.govt.nz/contacts/james-beard (Aussi)
https://www.treasury.govt.nz/contacts/dominick-stephens
https://www.treasury.govt.nz/contacts/cath-atkins
https://nz.linkedin.com/in/kerryn-fowlie-a22a0566?original_referer=https%3A%2F%2Fsearch.brave.com%2F
And you thought you had a vote?
But wait, there is more:
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/ministry-of-regulation-to-have-two-to-three-times-more-staff-than-productivity-commission-it-replaced-documents-reveal/4NXQSZFE3NH3XD4QJPGMHMRPA4/
So David Seymore, minister of regulation, gets his advise by the usual suspects above.
Reminds me of:
Ring-a-ring o’ roses,
A pocket full of posers.
A-tishoo! A-tishoo!
We all fall down!
Prepare for more carcinogens in your food 😒
We’ll be choking on cow farts if we don’t do it.
Former oranga tamariki leader Grainne Moss, forced to resign from her former job as head of Child-Youth-Family (oranga tamariki) for incompetence 3 years ago, is now revamped as CEO of the new ministry of regulation.
Can’t make up that sh*t.