Discussions at the federal government’s Economic Reform Roundtable last week proved fruitful, according to the Australian Trucking Association.
As a part of the national association’s submission to the government, they called on all of Australia’s governments to reduce their burden on business by increasing the use of regulatory impact analysis.
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ATA Chief of Staff Bill McKinley directed his address to Queensland Senator Matt Canavan, at the separate productivity roundtable being held at the same time as the Economic Reform Roundtable.
The ATA says that Canavan’s roundtable discussed the need for repeal clauses in government regulations and the need for an independent body to review regulation.
“In our submission to the NHVR on the implementation of its PBS Directional Stability under Braking standard, we pointed out that its onerous requirements for retrospectively fitting electronic braking to converter dollies had not been subject to formal impact analysis,” McKinley said after the meeting.
“But the NHVR is a national standard setting body. It is required to undertake proper impact assessments.
“Organisations that set rules and standards for business need to start by defining the problem they’re trying to fix and then test the benefits and costs of a range of options, including approaches that don’t involve regulation.”
McKinley further told the roundtable that the quality of regulatory impact analysis performed by federal government departments and commissions like the NTC was high.
He said that other organisations such as agencies set up under co-operative national schemes often considered that the requirement did not apply to them.
