Exporter Supply Chain Assurance System Stage 2 Review
Submission overview
The Australian Alliance for Animals has responded to the recommendations of the Exporters Supply Chain Assurance System (ESCAS) Stage 2 review.
The Stage 2 recommendations contain some positive features, however, they fail to address the major structural flaws exposing the industry to existential social licence risk. The review should be focused on addressing those flaws and lifting the bar across the board. Instead, current recommendations tinker around the edges, accommodate the lowest common denominator, and in some cases, propose arrangements that would take the system backwards in terms of accountability and transparency.
In our submission below, we respond to those Stage 2 recommendations in further detail.
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In this submission, the Alliance for Animals puts forward recommendations to strengthen animal welfare requirements in the review of the Exporters Supply Chain Assurance System framework.