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As required by Australian Pork Limited’s (APL) constitution, two elected directors of Australian Pork Limited will resign at the AGM being held on 14 November 2019.
Two Elected Director positions will become vacant on Thursday
14 November 2019.
Delegates will vote to elect two Elected Director candidates to the vacant positions at the AGM.
Nominations are being called for the APL elected director vacancies. A producer member of APL or a current APL Director can nominate a person(s) to stand for election as an Elected Director.
The Funding Agreement between APL and the Commonwealth Government (Department of Agriculture) and the APL Constitution both require a ‘skills- based Board’.
To ensure a skills-based Board is maintained, nominated candidates who are not existing Directors of the Board are required to provide a curriculum vitae together with a contribution to the following collective Board core skill and experience competencies:
a. Governance
b. Financial management
c. Government relations/public policy/
administration
d. Production
e. Processing
f. Food industry
g. Promotion and marketing
h. Market development and international
marketing
i. R&D/R&D administration
j. R&D commercialisation and technology
transfer
k. Conservation and natural resource
management
l. Business and management acumen.
The APL People & Culture Board Committee will review all nominations received to determine the impact of each candidate’s skills on the maintenance of a skills-based Board.
Nominated candidates must provide a consent to the nomination.
Nominations for these positions close at 5.00pm on Thursday 10 October 2019.
For further information, to nominate a candidate(s) or to obtain a consent to nomination form, please contact:
Mr Damien Howse Company Secretary, Australian Pork Limited PO Box 4746,
Kingston ACT 2604
Phone: 02 6270 8805 damien.howse@australianpork.com.au
AUSTRALIAN PORK LIMITED
ELECTED DIRECTOR VACANCY
Improvements to enhance PigPass
PIGPASS is a signifi- cant industry asset that enables governments and Australian Pork Limited to trace pigs in the event of a food safety incident and disease outbreak.
Governments are pro- gressively implementing the requirements for man- datory reporting – South Australia, NSW and West- ern Australia now have mandatory reporting.
Victoria’s arrangements will commence early in 2020 and the remaining states are also progressing towards mandatory move- ment reporting.
Until all jurisdictions have implemented these arrangements, PigPass is a mix of voluntary and mandatory reporting.
From the early stages, APL advocated that all those who move and re- ceive pigs should comply as this would make it eas- ier for all our producers, saleyards and abattoirs to make the transition to mandatory reporting.
If a disease event – like African swine fever – were to occur now, tracing all pigs within a short time is likely to be compromised.
It doesn’t matter if you are a commercial produc- er, own one pet pig, are a saleyard or abattoir or if you own a couple of pigs for your own use, pig movement reporting helps us help you to keep your pigs safe.
The key to controlling a disease like ASF is the ef- ficacy of PigPass to trace all pigs within a short time frame.
The sooner this occurs, the sooner movement re- strictions can be lifted,
and your business can get back to normal as soon as possible.
It is also very important for export markets who need to be assured our governments have control of a disease outbreak.
This assurance com- bined with surveillance to ensure the disease is eradicated are the corner- stones of our return to ex- port pork and pork prod- ucts to other countries.
In addition to ensur- ing you report pig move- ments, is the accuracy of pig movement reporting up to standard?
As an example, has the PigPass NVD serial num- ber been entered correctly?
It is easy to verify, but to assist, APL has introduced a small change to move- ment reporting to ensure this check now occurs.
You will now be asked to verify the serial num- ber and that the sending property identification code is correct.
So now, when a Queens- land producer or abattoir is receiving pigs from a producer in NSW, seeing a serial number showing it is from Western Australia should set off alarm bells.
These adjustments to PigPass to enhance this industry asset are an ongo- ing activity for APL – but we need you to help us make PigPass even better by checking movement re- porting details to prevent inadvertent errors.
For assistance, please con- tact the PigPass helpdesk on 1800 001 458 or help desk@pigpass.com.au
Deb Kerr, General Man- ager Policy
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GRAIN & PROTEIN
Preparing for the 2019 APL AGM
IT is that time of year when the Australian Pork Limited staff, and in particular the Corporate Services Division, are be- ginning to organise the Annual General Meeting.
Whilst some people know how much work goes into organising the AGM, the delegates forum and the many other side meetings that occur round it, there is a significant amount of governance in- volved.
That is to say, there are thingswemustdo,actions that have to happen in spe- cific order and with spe- cific notice periods to our members and interested parties.
You can find the official notice of the AGM on the APL website, australian- pork.com.au.
It will be held on Thurs- day, November 14, 2019 commencing at 1pm at the Melbourne Marriott, Mel- bourne, Victoria.
As usual, we will be re- ceiving and considering the financial statements of the company, together with the reports of the directors and auditors in respect to the year ended June 30, 2019 and approving the re- muneration of the compa- ny’s auditor for 2019-2020.
We have invited mem- bers to propose resolutions for the AGM (as they are entitled to do). www.porknews.com.au
For those unaware, the APL constitution requires elected directors to rou- tinely retire as set out in Rule 14.2(b).
The 2019 AGM will re- quire our delegates to vote to fill two vacant elected director positions.
Persons who wish to stand for election as an elected director must be nominated by either the Board or a member.
I encourage anyone in- terested in running as an elected director to contact me for further informa- tion.
For anyone entitled to vote at the AGM but can- not make it, APL needs a proxy form returned to us prior to 12.30pm on No- vember 12, 2019.
Other than that, the 2018-2019 Annual Report is available on the APL website.
Please advise if you pre- fer a printed copy of the report and we will post one out to you.
For more information, visit australianpork.com. au or for information re- garding any of the AGM processes, please contact APL Corporate Services Executive Nikki Watson on 02 6270 8814 or nikki. watson@australianpork. com.au or myself at dami en.howse@australianpork. com.au or 02 6270 8805.
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