FCA Responds To WA & SA Inquiries

The Franchise Council of Australia has responded in detail to the thorough and quite extensive recommendation of the recent franchising inquiries in Western Australia and South Australia as a precursor to preparing its submission to the proposed Federal Government inquiry into franchising.

In relation to the big ticket recommendations, the FCA's position is as follows:-

• The FCA is strongly supportive of proposals to improve the amount and quality of educational information available to franchisees and prospective franchisees.

• The FCA opposes the recommendation to create a mandatory federal registration scheme for franchise disclosure documents, administered by the ACCC. The FCA believes registration (which will not include any vetting of documents) will simply be an additional bureaucratic process that will add nothing other than significant extra cost to the