The AADA welcomed the opportunity to respond to the Treasury’s consultation on the review of the Motor Vehicle Service and Repair Information Sharing Scheme. In the submission, the AADA advocates for the scheme to be structured in a way that maintains competitive neutrality between independent repairers and dealers. Independent repairers do not face the cost, facility compliance and training barriers that dealers do and without these overheads, they are able to compete with dealers very effectively. While the scheme legislates that service and repair information provided by manufacturers to dealers is equally made available to independent repairers, care must be given to ensure that this is done in a way that recognises the substantial contractual financial and resourcing obligations that dealers make, but which independent repairers are not subject to.
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