Good industry-good investments: a report to MAF Policy

Abstract

The Commodity Levy process for land-based industries is administered by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF). As well as fulfilling the Ministry’s formal role in the Commodity Levy process, MAF staff assists industries to develop proposals that will comply with the Commodity Levies Act (1990). To facilitate this role MAF has commissioned a study, to be carried out during 2009 that would: i. Provide a framework for understanding the issues that are important in evaluating the impacts of industry-good investments; ii. Identify the types of industry-good investments regarded by levy-payers and representatives of levy-funded organisations as generating the greatest benefits for their industries; iii. Identify any changes to the CLA process that would enable more cost-effective implementation of the CLA framework.