Position paper10 Sep 2009
The ACCC commissioned a number of reports to inform its development of the water trading rules position paper.
Commissioned reports
These reports are referenced throughout the position paper:
- Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE), Survey of irrigators on water trading in the Murray-Darling Basin 2007-08.
- Frontier Economics, Volumetric restrictions on water entitlement trade.
- Sinclair Knight Merz (SKM), Water Trade and the Hydrological Connectivity of Surface Water Systems.
- Sinclair Knight Merz (SKM), Water Trade Between Water Sources—Water Trade Involving Farm Dams And Unregulated Catchments.
Consultancy reports
The reports by ABARE and SKM are available upon request to water@accc.gov.au.
The report by Frontier Economics on volumetric restrictions on water entitlement trade is available here.
Position paper
The ACCC has released its position paper on the development of water trading rules advice to the Murray-Darling Basin Authority (MDBA).
The MDBA is responsible for preparing the new strategic plan for the integrated and sustainable management of water resources in the Murray-Darling Basin (the 'Basin Plan'), which will contain water trading rules. In preparing these rules, the MDBA is required to obtain and have regard to the advice from the ACCC.
This position paper is the second step in developing this advice. The ACCC invites interested parties to make submissions on the matters raised in the paper.
Submissions were required by Friday, 23 October 2009.
Submissions to water trading rules position paper
Submissions 10-18 were submitted late.