The misuse of market power provision is considered a significant win for the fresh produce industry.

FMA Chairperson, Shane Schnitzle, said, ''The introduction of an effects test will offer a pro-competitive marketplace and will even the playing field across the fresh produce supply chain.''

FMA said that it has been part of an alliance of more than twenty peak industry bodies, calling on the Government to strengthen S46of the Competition and Consumer Act by enacting an ‘effects test’.