Have your say on the Dairy Industry Restructuring (Export Licences Allocation) Amendment Bill

Media Release

Organisation: Primary Production Committee

For release: Friday 18 October 2024

Have your say on the Dairy Industry Restructuring (Export Licences Allocation) Amendment Bill

The Primary Production Committee is calling for submissions on the Dairy Industry Restructuring (Export Licences Allocation) Amendment Bill. The bill would amend rules around how the dairy export quotas administered by New Zealand are allocated.

Dairy export quotas allow New Zealand dairy products to receive beneficial tariff rates in certain overseas markets. The bill would change the allocation of dairy export quotas from a system based on the proportion of milk solids a company collects from New Zealand farmers to a system based on a company's export history. It would also create a regulation-making power to enable quotas to be reserved for low-volume and otherwise ineligible exporters, and include non-bovine dairy in quota allocation.

Tell the Primary Production Committee what you think

Make a submissionon the billby midnight on 17 November 2024.

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