The committee will also have advisory roles, providing non-binding advice to the commissioner on whether use or approval of a proposed denomination for a plant variety is likely to be offensive to Māori. Information relevant to the applications are: novel, distinct, uniform, stable, and denomination criteria. National believes, however, that the scope and function of the Māori Plant Varieties Committee needs to be clarified. We believe the scope of the Māori Plant Varieties Committee should be limited to an advisory body, as recommended by the Waitangi Tribunal in their Wai 262 report: Ko Aotearoa Tēnei. 