Compliance Requirements for Coca-Cola Amatil under Australian Consumer Law

This assignment discusses the compliance requirements for Coca-Cola Amatil under the Australian Consumer Law enforced by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. It also covers the company's compliance programs and workplace activities to ensure compliance.

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Range of operations and sphere of business arrangements:
For this assignment the organization that has been selected is the FMGC Company Coca-
Cola Amatil. Its range of operations includes bottling of non-alcoholic drinks, alcoholic drinks,
water, hot beverages and food. The sphere of business arrangements that has been selected is the
compliance requirements that the company is needed to be following under the Australian
Consumer Law enforced by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.
Functions, Products and Services
Functions-
 Bottling different types of beverages
 Packaging different ready to eat products like fruits and snacks
 Delivery of the bottled and packaged products
Products and services-
 soft drinks
 sports drinks
 energy drinks
 spring water
 iced tea
 flavored milk
 tea
 coffee

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 iced tea
 fruit juice
 ready to eat fruits
 ready to eat snacks
 alcoholic beverages
Compliance requirements
As the company is based in Australia the company is bound to be complying with the
food safety regulations of the country. Every business in Australia that has been involved in
handling food needs to comply with the standards of the food safety that have been outlined by
the Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ). The regulations the company needs to
comply with are:
 Production of safe food under the Food Production (Safety) Act 2000 and the Food
Production (Safety) Regulation 2014 and verification of safety and quality of the products
under the Food Act 2006, the Food Regulation 2006.
 As Coca-Cola Amatil is a food and drink manufacturer, they also have to comply with the
measurement standards and rules that are mentioned in the Trade measurement section
that can be found in the National Measurement Institute for compliance information.
 Being aware of the specific codes for packaging and labeling and standards under the
Food Standards Code.

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Interpretation of collected information:
The functions of this company include bottling of different types of beverages, packaging
of ready-to-eat fruits and snacks and distributing them. The products and services of the Coca-
Cola Amatil company include soft drinks, sports drinks, energy drinks, spring water, iced tea,
flavored milk, tea, coffee, iced tea, fruit juice and other ready to eat fruits and snacks and other
alcoholic beverages.
Priority of the Compliance requirements
The compliance requirements that the company needs to follow can be prioritized
according to the risks and consequence of the possible breaches of those compliances.
 The breach that will affect the most is the breach of safety of food under the provisions of
Food Production (Safety) Act 2000, Food Production (Safety) Regulation 2014, the Food
Act 2006 and the Food Regulation 2006.
 The breach of Food Standards Code by not being aware of specific codes for packaging
and labeling and standards would also be affecting the company.
 The breach that will affect the least is the breach of the Trade measurement section that
can be found in the National Measurement Institute for compliance information.

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Identification of Compliance Requirements:
 Ensuring food safety is critical and central to the operations of the company as the
company is a food and beverage company. The breach of food and beverage safety would
be leading to harm of all the people who would be consuming the products and the
company would be liable under the Australian Consumer Law enforced by the Australian
Competition and Consumer Commission.
 The compliance with the specific codes for packaging and labeling and standards
mentioned in the Food Standards Code can be seen to be important in some
circumstances but not central to the organization’s operations as labeling the products
will made the people aware of the information of the product however the breach of it
would be less harmful to the consumers and in turn to the company’s organization.
 The compliance with the measurement standards and rules that are mentioned in the
Trade measurement section that can be found in the National Measurement Institute for
compliance information can be seen to be pertinent but are incidental to the
organization’s operations.
Company’s Compliance Programs
Coca-Cola Amatil has various legal and ethical compliance programs and related
management systems that the employees of the company have to follow:
 The quality performance of the products is regularly monitored by way of both internal
and external audits for ensuring that the stringent requirements relating to the quality,
environment and safety have been met.

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 The World Health Guidelines on the daily intake of added sugar are also maintained at
the time of processing of the foods and drinks.
 For the development and reformulations of all the new products the company has a
separate Nutrition Guideline.
 The company provides with both smaller and larger pack size of both alcoholic and non-
alcoholic beverages.
Workplace activities to ensure compliance
The activities that are followed by the employees for compliance with food safety and
packaging and measuring standards are:
 The ingredient and the nutrition information of each of the products are made
available on the online product comparison tools.
 The ‘per cent’ Daily Intake Guide label are introduced on all the products
providing clear information regarding the kilojoules present and the percentage of
the daily total intake of an adult.
 Measuring the sugar intensity of the non-alcoholic beverages so that the total
sugar intensity could reduce by 10 per cent within the year 2020.

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Reference
Australian Consumer Law
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
Food Production (Safety) Act 2000
Food Production (Safety) Regulation 2014
Food Act 2006
Food Regulation 2006
Food Standards Code
National Measurement Institute for compliance information