Reform

Freedom of the skies

July 15, 2013 | 0 Comments

In a recent post on our sister blog, China Law Insight, Susan Ning, Kate Peng and Li Rui look at a proposal that would expand the current immunity program under section 15 of the Chinese Anti-Monopoly...

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Surcharges are almost back on menu

July 12, 2013 | 2 Comments

Further to our previous blog post, the Competition and Consumer Amendment Bill 2013 (Cwlth) received assent on 29 June 2013. The Act now provides the Commonwealth Minister with a power to make regulations to exempt a...

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You know it’s an election year when, in the last week Parliament sits before an election, MPs are presented with a swollen legislative agenda. This year, that list includes a raft of private members’ bills...

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The ACCC has released revised Draft Merger Review Process Guidelines (Draft Guidelines) which contain a number of proposed revisions to the Current Guidelines.  The changes will not result in any substantive changes to the existing...

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On 27 June 2013, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) issued its updated Authorisation Guidelines.  The guidelines reflect the ACCC’s current approach to assessing applications for authorisation and replace the approach adopted by the...

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Wein’s World of Franchising

June 18, 2013 | 1 Comments

A recent report commissioned by the Federal Government has found that the franchise sector in Australia operates well and that the Franchising Code of Conduct (‘Code’) is generally working in practice. In early May Gary...

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On 28 May 2013, the European Commission released its annual report, the Report on Competition Policy (2012) (EC Report), which emphasised the use of competition policy to leverage the Single Market for growth, and rejected...

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Following on from our previous post, the Productivity Commission (PC) released its draft report into the National Access Regime on 28 May 2013. The regime, which enables third parties to seek access to infrastructure services...

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NZ gets ‘hard-core’ on cartels

May 27, 2013 | 1 Comments

Significant reforms to New Zealand competition law are one step closer following a recommendation by the Commerce Select Committee that the Commerce (Cartels and Other Matters) Amendment Bill (the Bill) be passed with various amendments....

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The Queen’s speech

May 20, 2013 | 1 Comments

The UK has been very busy drafting and passing some new consumer and competition bills.  The UK’s Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill (ERR Bill) received Royal Assent on 25 April 2013 and a new Draft...

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