Recommendations

1. Introduce competition as an objective to be promoted in the building regulatory system

2. Better serve Māori through the building regulatory system

3. Create more clear compliance pathways for a broader range of key building supplies

4. Explore ways to remove impediments to product substitution and variations

5. Establish a national system to share information about building products and consenting

6. Establish an education and mentoring function for a better co-ordinated and enhanced approach by BCAs to consenting and product approval processes

7. Develop and implement an all-ofgovernment strategy to co-ordinate and boost OSM (offsite manufacturing)

8. Promote compliance with the Commerce Act, including by discouraging the use of quantity-forcing supplier-tomerchant rebates that may harm competition

9. Consider the economy-wide use of land covenants, exclusive leases and contractual provisions with similar effect.