Supervisory Review: Dairy Quota Governance (2012-2015)
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Decision: BCFIRB to BCMMB — Supervisory review of GEP quota allocation from Stewart to Verdonk
BCFIRB retracts the B.C. Milk Marketing Board’s 2008 allocation of GEP quota, finding it failed to follow the regularization program by allocating quota without a joint application.
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Decision: BCFIRB to Stakeholders — Review of mediated agreement between Stewart and Verdonk (Graduated Entry Program Regularization)
BCFIRB reviews a mediated agreement between the Stewarts and Mr. Verdonk regarding the Graduated Entry Program (GEP) Regularization. This decision follows a B.C. Supreme Court order for BCFIRB to reconsider its June 2009 supervisory decision.
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Report: Economic Impact of B.C.’s Dairy, Chicken, Turkey, Hatching Egg, and Table Egg Industries — 2011 Update
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP provides an analysis of the economic impacts of British Columbia’s supply-managed dairy, chicken, turkey, hatching egg, and table egg industries for 2011, highlighting contributions to GDP, employment, and tax revenues.
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Regulated Marketing Economic Policy — B.C. Regulated Marketing System Overview
This document establishes the high-level economic and public interest principles that BCFIRB and all supply-managed commodity boards (like the BCCMB and BCBHEC) must follow when creating and administering their regulations, orders, and policies.
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Approval: BCFIRB to B.C. Milk Marketing Board — Milk Marketing Board quota governance review — Graduated Entry Program
BCFIRB affirms that the BCMMB’s Graduated Entrant Program (GEP) rules, as outlined in the May 4, 2015 Notice to Producers, meet the conditions set in BCFIRB’s December 2014 conditional approval decision. The rules address “double dipping” by retracting GEP benefits if exempt family transfers occur within ten years.
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Approval: BCFIRB to B.C. Milk Marketing Board — B.C. Milk Marketing Board quota governance review
BCFIRB approves the BCMMB’s recommendations on quota governance, including general quota allocation, quota exchange and whole farm transfers. BCFIRB requires further action on the Graduated Entrant Program to mitigate “double dipping” and defers consideration of extending quota transfer assessment exemptions to fall 2014.
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BCFIRB follow-up and conditional approval – GEP revisions in response to quota governance supervisory review
BCFIRB conditionally approved the Milk Board’s Graduated Entrant Program revision, requiring a 10-year prohibition on exempt family quota transfers to prevent “double dipping.” GEP recipients who breach this rule will lose all program benefits.
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BCFIRB to B.C. Milk Marketing Board — General expectations for dairy quota governance supervisory review
BCFIRB outlined supervisory expectations to guide the B.C. Milk Marketing Board’s Dairy Quota Policy & Governance Review.
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BCFIRB to B.C. Milk Marketing Board — Dairy quota governance consultations
BCFIRB commended the B.C. Milk Marketing Board for completing the first round of consultations in its Dairy Quota Policy & Governance Review.
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Letter: BCFIRB to BCMMB — Initiating a supervisory review of B.C. dairy quota governance
BCFIRB initiates a supervisory review of dairy quota governance, focusing on the BCMMB’s ‘FIFO and 10/10/5’ policy change proposal and its alignment with provincial allocation policy.