Operation of the wine-making industry
Information about the Inquiry
The Senate Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport References
Committee is inquiring into the Australian wine making industry with
particular reference to the supply and purchase of grapes and the
relationships between independent growers and wine makers in the current
market.
Specifically, the Committee will be focussing
its inquiry on the following key areas of the wine industry:
- The size and nature of the winegrape
glut, and the producers’ inventory levels;
- The structure of the industry and how
this impacts on the relationship between growers and producers; the nature
of the contractual agreements between them; the implementation of quality
benchmarks and whether these can be standardised in an industry-wide code
of conduct;
- The adequacy of the terms and
implementation of the Trade Practices Act 1974 in relation to
winegrape growers; and
- The need for a national grape growers’ representative body, the powers that it might have, and the means by which
it might be funded, including any possible role for Government in
overseeing a industry levy.
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For further information, contact:
Committee Secretary
Senate Standing Committees on Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport
PO Box 6100
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600
Australia
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