Reports, Inquiries and Guidelines

Australia - Reports and Inquiries by Year

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  2009

   

  Senate Inquiry into Trade Practices Amendment (Material Lessening of Competition - Richmond Amendment) Bill 2009
  Closed for comment 18 December 2009. Report due 18 March 2010. Reported 13 May 2010.
  

  
  Senate Inquiry into the Trade Practices Amendment (Infrastructure Access) Bill 2009
  Closed for comment. Report due 9 March 2010.

  
  

  Discussion Paper - Creeping Acquisitions (take 2)
  Closed for comment 12 June 2009. No report released

   

  Discussion Paper - Meaning of 'Understanding' in the Trade Practices Act
  Submissions were due by 31 March 2009 - non-confidential submissions can be viewed on the web site.

  2008

   

  Inquiry by Senate Economics Committee into the Trade Practices Amendment (Cartel Conduct and Other Measures) Bill 2008
  Reported 26 February 2009.

   

  Discussion Paper - Creeping Acquisitions
  Open for comment until 10 October

   

  Criminal Penalties for Serious Cartel Conduct - Draft legislation

   

  Inquiry by Senate Economics Committee into the Trade Practices Legislation Amendment Bill 2008
  Report available

   

  Inquiry by Senate Economics into the Unit Pricing (Easy comparison of grocery prices) Bill 2008
  Referred 17 June. Due to report by 2 September

   

  Inquiry into the Trade Practices (Creeping Acquisitions) Amendment Bill 2007 [2008]
  Referred on 26 June 2008. Due to report on 27 August 2008.

   

  ACCC Grocery Inquiry 2008
  Announced January 2008 - report finalised 31 July.

   

  2007

   

  ACCC Petrol Inquiry 2007
  Inquiry into the Price of Unleaded Petrol - reported 17 December 2007

   

  2004

   

  Senate Inquiry into the Effectiveness of the Trade Practices Act 1974 in protecting small business (March 2004)

   

  2003

   

  Dawson Review 2003
  Review of the Competition Provisions of the Trade Practices Act

   

   

  2001

   

  Productivity Commission's Review of the National Access Regime (2001)

   

  Productivity Commission's Review of the Prices Surveillance Act 1983 (2001)

   

  1997

   

  Cultivating Competition - June 1997
  Inquiry into aspects of the National Competition Policy Reform Package
  Report from the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Financial Institutions and Public Administration

   

  1993

   

  Hilmer Review - National Competition Policy - 1993
  National Competition Policy - Report by the Independent Committee of Inquiry

   

  1991

   

  Cooney Committee Report 1991
  Adequacy of the existing legislative controls in the Trade Practices Act over mergers and acquisitions

   

  1989

   

  Griffiths Committee Report 1989
  Mergers, Takeovers and Monopolies: Profiting from Competition?
  Report of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs

   

  1976

   

  Swanson Committee 1976
  Trade Practices Act Review Committee

   

   

Guidelines

 

Mergers

 

ACCC Merger Guidelines (November 2008)These now replace the 1999 Guidelines

 

ACCC Formal Merger Process Guidelines (January 2007)

 

ACCC Merger Review Process Guidelines (July 2006)

 

Click here for an overview of these guidelines

 

Authorisations and Notifications

 

Guide to Collective Bargaining Notifications (Dec 2006)

 

Guide to Exclusive Dealing Notifications (Dec 2006)

 

Authorisations - new processes from 2007 (Dec 2006)
Relates to non-merger authorisations

 

International Reports

 

For more international resources visit my International Competition Law page

 

Canada

Innovation and Dynamic Efficiencies in Merger Review (April 2007)

 

New Zealand

A Best Practice Review of the New Zealand Merger Clearance Regime (August 2007)

 

United States

Antitrust Modernisation Commission Reports

International Competition Policy Advisory Committee Reports

 

International

OECD - Dynamic Efficiencies in Merger Analysis (2007)

OECD - Report on Positive Comity (1999)

OECD - Report on Notification of Transnational Mergers (1999)