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 |