Treaty Process

The Hauraki Treaty settlement is an agreement between the Crown and the iwi/hapū of Hauraki to settle the Hauraki historical Treaty claims against the Crown.

The Hauraki Treaty negotiation process can be broken down into three phases

  1. Hauraki Collective Governance arrangements through to Hauraki Framework Agreement
  2. Hauraki Agreement in Principle (AIP)
  3. Hauraki Deed of Collective and Individual Settlement (DOS)

Hauraki Collective Governance arrangements through to Hauraki Framework Agreement

Governance Arrangements

  • Designing and agreeing governance structure and name for Hauraki Collective

Framework Agreement

  • Right of first refusal scope and general mechanism for operation
  • Collectively held cultural redress sites, co-governance
  • Key settlement assets available for collective or iwi specific acquisition
  • Generic themes for Historical Account
  • Flagging there will be collective/iwi specific commercial redress
  • Flagging there will be collective/iwi specific quantum

Hauraki Agreement in Principle

  • Collective/iwi specific quantum amounts and commercial redress
  • Wāhi tapu and other culturally significant redress for iwi or groups of iwi
  • Identification of commercial assets available for iwi specific or collective acquisition
  • Iwi specific themes for Historical Account in addition to generic themes

Hauraki Deed of Collective and Individual Settlement

  • Generic and tailored historical account, Crown acknowledgments and Crown apology
  • Collective quantum and iwi specific quantum amounts
  • Commercial assets available for purchase
  • Detailed scope and operation of right of first refusal
  • Collective cultural redress
  • Iwi specific cultural redress
  • Collective Post Settlement Governance Entity Structure(s) with any agreed co-governance/ co-management agreement that includes DOC, TLA’s Water Authorities and others

To enable the Hauraki Collective to meet these milestones a Hauraki Collective Strategic Business Plan has been established.