This is a register of decisions and declarations under Part IIIA of the Trade Practices Act. They may be decisions of the Commonwealth minister that a regime established by a state or territory for access to a service is an effective access regime for the service; or proposed service declarations that a service is an essential one of national significance.
An authorisation is the granting of immunity from legal action by the ACCC for some mergers and some kinds of anti-competitive conduct that might otherwise breach the Trade Practices Act. Notifications are lodged with the ACCC by companies to give them immunity from the exclusive dealing provisions of the Act. The immunity remains until it is revoked by the ACCC.
Companies may ask for an ACCC-conducted conference after an emergency ban of a product is imposed, or before a compulsory recall order of a product comes into effect. This is a register of such conferences.
This register records any general undertakings not covered by s. 87B of the Trade Practices Act or s. 93AA of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 1989 and 2001.
This register lists Public Compliance Commitments which are voluntary declarations from companies that they will comply with the price exploitation guidelines and price exploitation provisions of the Trade Practices Act.
This register contains: references given to the Commission by the minister under ss. 10.47(1) and 10.57(1); particulars of decisions made by the Commission to hold investigations under ss. 10.48(2) and 10.58(2); requests to the Commission by the minister under ss. 10.48(3) and 10.58(3); relevant documents given to the Commission; particulars of oral submissions; reports given to the minister by the Commission in relation to such investigations.
Provides a detailed listing of all informal merger clearances, formal merger clearances and merger authorisation applications (to the Australian Competition Tribunal).
Under Part VIIA of the Trade Practices Act the ACCC vets price rises for specified organisations, holds inquiries and monitors prices. This register contains locality notices given to the ACCC under section 95Z and includes the ACCC’s deliberations, the outcome and the reasons for the outcome.
When the ACCC believes that a breach of the Trade Practices Act has occurred, or may occur, it may decide that the best way to resolve this is by seeking an s. 87B undertaking rather than litigating. The Federal Court has extensive powers to enforce the undertakings and the ACCC keeps a public register of those undertakings.
This register contains undertakings only for matters that are the subject of a formal delegation to the ACCC by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC).
