The company maintains five AgriFood Industry Standing Committees:
Committees are regarded as key company and industry stakeholders with a valuable contribution to make on issues like industry skills and workforce innovation and reviews of training products and services, including training packages.
During 2008-09 the Board reviewed the role and composition of these committees (beginning the process in 2007-08) to reflect the company’s expanded role and changed governance arrangements. These enhanced arrangements were designed to lift the profile of industry advisory standing committees to ensure their relevance to informing the company’s future directions.
The changes aimed to create a stronger industry voice in company activities for peak industry organisations and enterprises with a broader role in supporting work the company undertakes. Advisory standing committees now meet up to four times a year with committee chairmen reporting twice a year to the Board on committee performance and projects.
Two members of standing committees are now selected to sit on the Board selection committee under a revised company Constitution.