Secondly, the bill will also ensure that our PVR regime is consistent with the Crown's obligations under the Treaty. Ko Aotearoa Tēnei, the Waitangi Tribunal's report into the Wai 262 claim, found that kaitiaki relationships with taonga species are entitled to a reasonable degree of protection. The bill establishes a Māori Plant Varieties Committee, whose primary role will be to assess the likely impact of the grant of a PVR on kaitiaki relationships with taonga species. If the grant of a PVR is likely to adversely impact that kaitiaki relationship and this impact can't be mitigated, then a PVR may well be declined. 