Hon KRIS FAAFOI: Level 4 required flexibility in how businesses worked together, shared resources, or took cooperative measures with other businesses under level 4. The policy statement was issued to make sure businesses can work together in ways that allow them to provide things like food and other grocery products and other essential goods and services that New Zealanders needed, in a fair and equitable way. The Government recognised that going into alert level 4 was not the time for strict competition rules to get in the way of the common good of making sure New Zealanders got access to essential items that they needed. We also made it clear that this did not mean that COVID-19 could be used as an excuse for non-essential collaboration or anti-competitive business practices such as price fixing.