Abbreviations

ABR

The Australian Business Review

AC

Companion of the Order of Australia

Agricultural Competitiveness White Paper

Commonwealth of Australia 2015, Agricultural Competitiveness White Paper: Stronger farmers stronger economy

ACCC

Australian Competition and Consumer Commission

ACCC 2008 Grocery Inquiry

ACCC (2008) Report of the ACCC Inquiry into the Competitiveness of Retail Prices for Standard Groceries

ACCI

Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry

ACL

Australian Consumer Law

ACT

Australian Capital Territory

ADF

Australian Dairy Farmers

AFGC

Australian Food and Grocery Council

AFR

Australian Financial Review

AIDC

Australian Industry Dairy Corporation

ADR

Alternative dispute resolution

Agriculture White Paper, 2015

Commonwealth of Australia 2015, Agricultural Competitiveness White Paper: Stronger farmers stronger economy

AMWU

Australian Manufacturing Workers Union

ARC

Active Retail Collaboration

AO

Officer of the Order of Australia

BCA

Business Council of Australia

CAANZ-ACL review interim report, 2016

Consumer Affairs Australia New Zealand, Australian Consumer Law Review Interim Report, October 2016

CEO

Chief Executive Officer

CC

Competition Commission (UK)

CC 2008 Report

Competition Commission Report (30 April 2008), The supply of groceries in the UK market investigation (UK)

CCA

Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth)

CCO

Code Compliance Officer (UK)

CMA

Competition & Markets Authority (UK)

CCM

Code Compliance Manager

COSBOA

Council of Small Business Australia

DSAP

Dairy Structural Adjustment Program

Explanatory Statement, FGC Regulation, 2015

Explanatory Statement, Competition and Consumer Act 2010 Competition and Consumer (Industry Codes—Food and Grocery) Regulation 2015

FGCC

Food and Grocery Code of Conduct

FMCG

Fast moving consumer goods

GCA

Grocery Code Adjudicator (UK)

GFC

Global Financial Crisis

Groceries Market Investigation Order 2009

The Groceries (Supply Chain Practices) Market Investigation Order 2009, UK

GSA

Grocery Supply Agreement

GSCOP

Groceries Supply Code of Practice (UK)

Harper Review

Ian Harper et al (2015) Competition Policy Review (Commonwealth of Australia)

HCC

Horticulture Code of Conduct

HMA

Horticulture Mediation Adviser

HOR, Farm Gate to Plate and Horticultural Code Bills, 2011.

The Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia Advisory Report on the Constitutional Corporations (Farm Gate to Plate) Bill 2011 and Competition and Consumer Amendment (Horticultural Code of Conduct) Bill 2011, House of Representatives Standing Committee on Agriculture, Resources, Fisheries and Forestry, March 2012

IGA

Independent Grocers of Australia

SERC, Impacts of supermarket pricing on the dairy industry, 2011.

Senate Economics References Committee, The impacts of supermarket pricing decisions on the dairy industry, 2011

IP

Intellectual property

ITV

Independent Television

MGA

Master Grocers Australia Independent Retailers

SERC, Milking it for all its worth, 2010

Senate Economics References Committee Report, Milking it for all it’s worth — competition and pricing in the Australian dairy industry, May 2010

MP

Member of Parliament

MSC

Major supermarket chain (in this Report, MSCs refers to Coles and Woolworths)

NCC Dairy – Now and Then, 2004

National Competition Council 2004, NCC Occasional Series: Dairy - Now and Then: The Australian Dairy Industry Since Deregulation, AusInfo, Canberra

NCP

National Competition Policy

NFF

National Farmers’ Federation

NFP

National Food Plan

NFP issues paper, 2011

DAFF 2011, Issues paper to inform development of a national food plan, Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Canberra

OASBC

The Office of the Australian Small Business Commissioner

OBPR

Office of Best Practice Regulation

OFT

Office of Fair Trading (UK)

Osegowitsch and Goelz

Tom Osegowitsch and Markus Goelz, University of Melbourne case study, Aldi in Australia, October 2011

PC

Productivity Commission

PC, Consumer Law, Final Report 2017

Productivity Commission, Consumer Law Enforcement and Administration, Final Report, March 2017

PGCC

Produce and Grocery Industry Code of Conduct

RIS

Regulatory Impact Statement

RSR

Retail-Supplier Roundtable

SBDC

Small Business Development Corporation of WA

SBFE

Small Business and Family Enterprise (Ombudsman)

SCOP

Supermarkets Code of Practice (UK)

SDATA

Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association

SELC, FGC Regulation, 2015

Senate Economics Legislation Committee, Competition and Consumer Act 2010 - Competition and Consumer (Industry Codes – Food and Grocery) Regulation, Report, 2015

SME

Small and medium-sized enterprise

SSC, Australia’s Food Processing Sector, 2012

Senate Select Committee, Inquiry into Australia’s food processing sector, August 2012

SMH

Sydney Morning Herald

TFGA

Tasmanian Farmers & Graziers Association

TPA

Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth)

Treasury, FGCC consultation paper, 2014

Treasury, Improving Commercial Relationships in the Food and Grocery Sector consultation paper, August 2014

Treasury, FGCC Final Assessment RIS, 2014

Treasury, Improving Commercial Relationships in the Food and Grocery Sector Final Assessment RIS, November 2014

UK

United Kingdom

VFF

Victorian Farmers Federation

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