Australian Horse Industry and an Emergency Animal Disease Response Agreement (EADRA)
Information about the Inquiry
On 25 October 2010 the Senate referred the following matter to the Senate Standing Committee on Rural Affairs and Transport for inquiry and report.
Following the commencement of the 43rd Australian Parliament, the Senate re-referred the inquiry to the Rural Affairs and Transport (RAT) Committee.
The Terms of Reference for the inquiry are:
(a) the implications to the Australian horse industry of committing to an
Emergency Animal Disease Response Agreement (EADRA);
(b) the options for equitable contributions by horse owners to a levy scheme to
meet their obligations under an EADRA in the event of an emergency animal
disease outbreak in horses;
(c) the criteria by which the cost burden of a levy would be shared between
Commonwealth, state and territory governments, horse industry groups and
owners;
(d) quarantine and biosecurity threats to Australia's horse industry; and
(e) any other related matters.
Submissions should be received by 12 November 2010. The reporting date is 25 November 2010.
The Committee is seeking written submissions from interested individuals and organisations preferably in electronic form submitted online or sent by email to rat.sen@aph.gov.au as an attached Adobe PDF or MS Word format document. The email must include full postal address and contact details.
Alternatively, written submissions may be sent to:
Committee Secretary
Senate Standing Committee on Rural Affairs and Transport
PO Box 6100
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600
Australia
Notes to help you prepare your submission are available from the website at https://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/wit_sub/index.htm. Alternatively, the Committee Secretariat will be able to help you with your inquiries and can be contacted on telephone +61 2 6277 3511 or facsimile +61 2 6277 5811 or by email to rat.sen@aph.gov.au.
Inquiries from hearing and speech impaired people should be directed to Parliament House TTY number 02 6277 7799. Adobe also provides tools at http://access.adobe.com/ for the blind and visually impaired to access PDF documents. If you require any special arrangements to enable you to participate in the Committee's inquiry, please contact the Committee Secretariat.
Once the Committee accepts your submission, it becomes a confidential Committee document and is protected by Parliamentary Privilege. You must not release your submission without the Committee's permission. If you do, it will not be protected by Parliamentary Privilege. At some stage during the inquiry, the Committee normally makes submissions public and places them on its website. Please indicate if you want your submission to be kept confidential.
For further information, contact: Committee Secretary
Senate Standing Committee on Rural Affairs and Transport
PO Box 6100
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600
Australia