Submissions

This submission is made by the New Zealand Business Roundtable (NZBR), an organisation comprising primarily chief executives of major New Zealand business firms. The purpose of the NZBR is to contribute to the development of sound public policies that reflect overall New Zealand interests. Because of the size of its member companies, few of them have a direct interest in Unlisted. Read more

New Zealand is not on track to lift its average living standards relative to Australia or the OECD average. The BPS is based on a projected annual average rate of growth in real GDP of only 2.8 percent during the five years to March 2010. Read more

The NZBR agrees with the statements in the introductory note to the Bill about the importance of security in private property rights and the need for compensation when rights in private property are taken. Many of our submissions on government regulations over the years have stressed the need for governments to take a more circumspect and principled approach to altering private property rights. Read more

The Forum has long argued that the main contribution the Council can make to the advancement of the overall welfare of the citizens of Wellington City is to minimise the rates and regulatory burdens that it imposes. It could achieve this by focusing on funding genuine local public goods and services, facilitating the efficient provision of necessary infrastructure and exiting from non-core activities. Read more

The submission comments on the proposal that the Council should contribute up to $3.95 million per annum for seven years towards the costs of holding the V8 Supercar Championship series (V8 race) in Wellington city from April 2006. Read more

The Bill's explanatory note describes it as an omnibus bill. It will amend the Securities Act 1978, the Securities Markets Act 1988, the Takeovers Act 1993, and the Takeovers Code, with related amendments to other statutes. Read more

We have several concerns about the propositions contained in paragraphs 20 and 21. We raise them in the context of section 68 of the Act. Read more

We are grateful for the opportunity to comment on the Ministry's discussion document, Review of the Financial Reporting Act Part II. Read more

The New Zealand Food Safety Authority (NZFSA) has released five papers that are part of a review of the government’s role in the domestic food sector. The fifth paper, Principles and Possible Methods for a Cost Recovery Framework (the Cost Recovery Paper), states that its purpose is to “propose principles and possible methods for a cost recovery framework for domestic food safety that will determine the funding of functions undertaken by the regulator or on its behalf and who will fund those functions” (p 5). Read more

This paper was prepared by Capital Economics Ltd for the Local Government Forum. Read more

In this submission, section 2 reviews the BPS's objectives. Section 3 discusses whether the fiscal strategy in the BPS is consistent with those objectives and touches on problems of regulation. Read more

The minister of energy has invited interested parties to comment on new matters raised in the Report, and other relevant matters that have not been the subject of earlier submissions or are not reflected in the Report. In particular, the minister has sought comments on the Report's recommendation that a targeted control regime comparable to that applied to electricity lines businesses under Part 4A of the Commerce Act 1986 should be applied to gas pipeline businesses. Read more

We are writing in response to the invitation to submit comments on the Oil Security report that was prepared by Covec and Hale and Twomey (‘the Report’) and released on 14 December 2004. We agree that the government faces an international relationship problem. Read more

In our view the Draft Report's recommendation that the government engage with the International Energy Agency (IEA) directly over oil security issues is sensible. We consider that the government will be able to do this more effectively if it gathers more information about willingness to pay and if it approaches the issues in a structured manner, using the framework for evaluating regulatory proposals in the Cabinet Manual. Read more

The Draft Report provisionally recommends that the termination of voice calls on a non-third generation (3G) cellular mobile telephone network should be regulated on a cost basis. It does not recommend regulation of 3G mobile services. Read more