On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 04:24:46 GMT, Marc Ramsey wrote:




There is no written policy at this moment, as the category is less than
a year old, and it's not clear whether any other manufacturers will make
use of it. The whole point is to keep it fairly flexible, so those who
can't or won't go for all flights approval have another category to work
with.

Great. What you mean is that any manufacturer could be screwed around
by the GFAC as there is no publicly stated, openly available policy.
It has happened before.

"jump starting the market" in that way as you put it would most
likely contravene the Trade Practices Act (1974) in Australia and land
you with a large fine. Ask the freight companies who were fined after
the ACCC(Australian Consumer and Competition Commission) used an
electronic barograph to prove that goods being sent by "airfreight"
were in fact going by truck between Brisbane- Sydney- Melbourne.

I have no idea what you are talking about.

Writing a specification around one manufacturer's product, approving
that product and others from the same manufacturer and then changing
the rules for new entrants into the market to make it more difficult
and expensive for them while still leaving the old rules for the
original manufacturer's products would be not only considered
unethical in Australia but most likely illegal. The ACCC does have
teeth and uses them regularly.


Mike Borgelt