At its meeting on 14 July 2006 the Council of Australian Governments made a series of decisions on significant areas of national interest.

In the area of regulatory reform COAG agreed to address four further areas for cross-jurisdictional regulatory reform, in addition to the six areas agreed to at its 10 February 2006, meeting as follows:

• environmental assessment and approvals processes;
• business name, Australian Business Number and related business registration processes;
• personal property securities; and
• product safety.

A full set of the recommendations agreed by COAG is here.(pdf)