Election year:
2023
Political party:
National
Associated politicians:
Policy:
Agriculture
- Introduce a 2-for-1 rule for the next three years: for every new regulation that central or local government wants to introduce on the rural sector, they must take away two.
- Require local and central government to assess the costs of all new rules on the rural sector and publish the findings.
- Establish a Rural Regulation Review Panel to consider all regulations affecting farmers.
- Require new rules to be assessed for their costs to farmers with findings published.
- Focus environmental protection on areas of high environmental value.
- Commit to real consultation – officials must consult on a genuine, open and transparent basis and respect differing views.
- Eliminate resource consents to build water storage infrastructure on land, unless wetlands or Significant Natural Areas are affected.
- For other types of water storage, require councils to approve or decline consents within two years, and consents will last for 30 years.
- Make commercially-grown fruit and vegetables a permitted activity under the Resource Management Act. In most cases, growers will not have to obtain a resource consent to grow more food.
- Increase maximum penalties for breaching border biosecurity rules, to protect our primary industries.
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