发布单位：澳大利亚联邦议会
发布文号：C2017B00138
发布日期：2017-06-22
生效日期：2017-06-23
有效性状态： 
废止日期：暂无
备注：2017年6月22日，澳大利亚修订《竞争和消费者法案》，为了让消费者能获得清楚、准确的信息，修订含有棕榈油的商品的信息。主要修订内容如下：在附录2的第134节增加棕榈油的商品信息。在本条例生效后12个月内，确保含有棕榈油的商品信息标准都将生效。 零售方式销售的产品，不论棕榈油含量多少，都必须在商品、包装、附加商品或标签上提供棕榈油信息。
Competition and Consumer Amendment (Truth in Labelling—Palm Oil) Bill 2017
No. , 2017
(Senator Xenophon)
A Bill for an Act to provide for accurate identification of palm oil in goods, and for related purposes
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
This Act is the Competition and Consumer Amendment (Truth in Labelling—Palm Oil) Act 2017.
(1) Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.
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The day after this Act receives the Royal Assent.
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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this Act.
(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act.
Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.
The purpose of this Act is to ensure that consumers have clear, accurate information about the inclusion of palm oil in goods.
1 After section 134 of Schedule 2
Insert:
(1) The Commonwealth Minister must, within 12 months after the commencement of this section, make an information standard under subsection 134(1) for goods containing palm oil.
(2) The Commonwealth Minister must ensure that an information standard for goods containing palm oil is in force at all times after the first one comes into force.
(3) The information standard must:
(a) apply in relation to goods manufactured on or after a date no later than 12 months after the commencement of this section; and
(b) apply in relation to goods supplied by way of retail sale; and
(c) require the provision of the information that the goods contain palm oil, regardless of the amount of palm oil used in the goods; and
(d) provide for the information to be provided on a label that:
(i) is on the goods; or
(ii) is on the package of the goods; or
(iii) accompanies the goods; or
(iv) is displayed in connection with the sale of the goods.
