Ease of business

Why this matters

Simplified regulations can enable easier market entry and expansion and encourage entrepreneurial activities and sector growth.

Primary industries operate across numerous regulatory systems, frameworks and standards, making doing business complex. Duplication is inefficient, increases business costs, places burden on operators, and limits their ability to work on supporting their business.

Reducing unnecessary constraints, while providing the sector with access to data, investment and price setting capabilities will improve profitability and productivity.

Stable, clear and certain regulatory and system settings provide business certainty. It builds business and investor confidence in our sector and supports growth, attracting new entrants into the sector and ensuring future profitable and thriving agriculture, fisheries and forestry businesses.

The sector needs and wants fit-for-purpose, outcomes-focused regulation designed for primary industries to deliver quality outcomes for the sector, the environment and community.

By making it easier to do business in Queensland, our primary industries can thrive.

Goal

Primary industries are underpinned by coordinated and harmonised regulation and systems which proportionately mitigate risks.

These stable and certain system settings provide clarity for investment, enable business viability, and deliver fairness across the supply chain to help boost profitability and attract required capital.

Success looks like

Business operations are streamlined, regulatory processes and compliance frameworks are more efficient, making it easier to navigate policies, access markets and invest in the sector.

Initiatives

There are many opportunities to thrive across our state, regions and agriculture, fisheries and forestry sectors.

Key initiatives to harness opportunities and drive action include:

• Reduce compliance burden and red tape
• Create conditions for lasting investment growth
• Modernise and streamline the legislative framework, policies and codes for managing the forestry and timber industry, ensuring they are based on science, evidence and research
• Modernise Queensland’s forest management systems
• Modernise the regulatory and decision-making landscape
• Optimise outcomes-based regulation and processes
• Recognise forestry and timber industry performance as transparent through reporting