Coates BarryBARRY COATES (Green): Tēnā koe Mr Chair. The Green Party supports this bill the Geographical Indications (Wine and Spirits) Registration Amendment Bill. We think that this issue is vital for New Zealand's wine industry. The wine industry is a great example of an industry that has not only benefited from savvy marketing—so to speak; excuse the term—Richard Prosser: Ha ha! Very good.BARRY COATES: Good thank you—but also from a drive for sustainability which we regard as leading practice amongst agricultural sectors.We share a concern that this bill is coming late to the House and that the Government did not act on this earlier. We think that this has exposed New Zealand wine producers to the potential for knock-off New Zealand wines from other parts of the world and we are very pleased that belatedly this bill has come to the House. We note it is also an implementation of article 23 of the Doha declaration so it has been the subject of multilateral trade negotiations and we think that the protection of wonderful place names for New Zealand wines such as Marlborough Central Otago Wairarapa Kūmeu Te Kauwhata is going to be enormously important for the New Zealand wine industry in the future.We recognise that the issues of geographical indicators are strongly associated with international trade agreements. The United States system tends to favour trademarks rather than geographical indicators and perhaps this bill is timely with the recent demise of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement and the forthcoming proposed rise of a New Zealand - European Union free-trade agreement. But I share my colleagues' concern that we have not moved faster in order to have a more articulated and broader coverage of indicators. For example the European system has a Protected Designation of Origin that deals with the know-how of production as well as the Protected Geographical Indication and a third category called Traditional Specialities Guaranteed that relates to traditional knowledge and character and production. So in that way we might have stronger protection for the value added from our primary production sector and encourage specialisation in our production that will then command higher prices and defensible prices internationally.We think that geographical indicators should be extended to food products such as Bluff oysters Morrinsville cheese Pukekohe potatoes Ōhākune carrots Waiheke olives—there are many such food products that could benefit from geographical indicators. We are disappointed that the Government has been moving so slowly in order to extend geographical indicators beyond the wine sector and we are disappointed at the delay that it has taken to cover the wine sector through this legislation. The Green Party supports a broader approach to food labelling including country-of-origin labelling and we note that New Zealand has not introduced country-of-origin labelling despite that designation being labelled in Australia and being the only area where we have not got joint rules with Australia on labelling.On the bill itself as I said the Green Party supports this bill we support the Supplementary Order Paper (SOP) 244 put up by the Minister of Commerce and Consumer Affairs and we support the recommendation from the Primary Production Committee for the establishment of a Māori advisory committee under new section 39A inserted by clause 21B. Therefore I am afraid we cannot support the two SOPs 245 and 246 suggested by New Zealand First. We do strongly support many of its recommendations but not in this case. So with that I commend support of this bill.