To administer the selection of new malting barley varieties and ensure adequate publicity.
The Malting Barley Committee is constituted with two members from each of the three funding bodies – MAGB, BBPA and SWA. The MBC may co-opt members from those parts of the malting brewing and distilling industries responsible for purchases, technical advice or macro-scale testing; these members can vote on technical matters but not constitutional matters. The Committee is supplemented by one each from AIC (Seeds), AHDB and BSPB plus the Secretariat provided by MAGB. The MBC may co-opt others to assist their business; such members will be non-voting members on the MBC, BUT they may be asked to participate in discussion and vote on appeals. A vote will only be taken within the MBC when requested by one or more of the voting members.
The Chair will be from one of the funding bodies and will serve for two years, supported by a Deputy/Vice Chair, who is Chair of the MIcromalting Group (MMG). The Chair will not normally vote but in the event of a tie, has the casting vote.
To achieve sound decisions, it is important that the industries are properly represented at MBC meetings. Where an industry representative is unable to attend, an alternate should be present from the same stakeholder.