Ms Angela Robinson:

There are two things. The first is the task force I mentioned. This is made up of the EPA, the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications. That is there to drive the roadmap and the actions contained therein. There is also the food waste charter monitoring group where the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the other key Departments and agencies are represented. Conversations are had there and sets of actions are set out. They will then be engaging directly with the retailers in respect of monitoring their commitment. The task force will be looking to see how the actions are being implemented.

There is provision for the roadmap and the actions to be reviewed. If it looks like there is a risk we will not meet the targets, and to go back to the Senator's original question about whether mandatory matters need to be looked and whether it needs to be made mandatory, then that will need to be factored into that.

Issues such as specifications came out very clearly in the research I mentioned. We have to look at the distinction between marketing standards and the specifications required by the retailer to make sure we understand why these are being rejected, if they are being rejected by retailers. We need to look at this and act on what the data shows us.