Election year:
2023
Political party:
Act
Associated politicians:
Policy:
Agriculture
- Shift the responsibility of managing, regulating, and verifying farm plans from central government to regional councils.
- Ensure farm plans have a consistent template across different regional councils.
- Make regional councils or approved third party verifiers responsible for verifying farm plans. If a farm plan is verified as compliant, and no significant changes occur on the property, or no changes occur within a specified period of time, no further verification will be necessary.
- Require regional councils to monitor environmental impacts of farming, stipulating that a decline in environmental standards must be detected before actions is taken.
- Give regional councils the authority to determine when a breach is acceptable, such as when a natural disaster occurs.
- Allow live animal exports, a half-billion-dollar industry for New Zealand, and require it to operate according to a world-leading “gold standard”.
- Make sure people with practical animal handling and farming experience are appointed to the National Animal Welfare Advisory Committee (NAWAC).
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