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RULES * Australia - Government committed to ending regulation overlaps
ACT,Australia -Supply Chain Review - June 9, 2008: -- The Rudd Government is committed to ending regulatory overlaps constraining the trucking industry, according to Minister for Finance and Deregulation Lindsay Tanner... He says the Business Regulation and Competition Working Group which is part of the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) shows the Government is serious about working with the states to boost productivity by streamlining regulations... To highlight the regulatory inconsistencies the industry faces, Tanner pointed to an instance where an operator took over two years to move a custom-designed trailer with an "unusually shaped" load from Victoria to Queensland because of "stupid regulation"... According to Tanner, the trailer met Australian Design Rules as well as performance based standards but ran into trouble when the operator had to deal with Victorian and Queensland bureaucracies... "This regulation seems stupid because it is not fit-for-purpose. It may be ineffective, overly burdensome, outdated or duplicate other regulation." he said...
* ‘Very dark clouds’ hovering over trucking industry
ACT,Australia -Supply Chain Review - June 9, 2008: -- Opposition spokesman on transport Warren Truss has hit out at the Rudd Government’s approach to the trucking industry, arguing it will have adverse consequences... Speaking during the Australian Trucking Convention, Truss defended the Coalition’s decision to block bills in the Senate that would result in an increase in the fuel excise and higher registration charges in the Australian Capital Territory... While he says the Coalition believes the industry needs to pay its way, he says the registration charges will punish higher-productivity vehicles and will push up inflation... Truss also criticised a provision in the registration and fuel excise proposals which may restrict the Federal Government’s ability to dissent from decision made by the Australian Transport Council (ATC)...
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