Telstra accounting separation current cost report—June quarter 2006
The ACCC issued issued the seventh current cost accounting report relating to Telstra. The report contains current cost financial information for 'core' telecommunications access services. It provides information that the ACCC is required to make public about current cost accounting under a direction issued by the Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts in June 2003.
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Australia Post report re-issued
The ACCC has re-issued its first report on whether Australia Post is subsidising its competitive activities from its monopoly activities. After consultation with Australia Post and other interested parties about the level of disclosure of information received from Australia Post under record-keeping rules, the report now contains information previously removed because Australia Post claimed it was confidential. The findings of the original report—that there is no cross-subsidy from the reserved services to the non-reserved services—remain unchanged.
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Copyright licensing and collecting societies: a guide for copyright licensees
This draft guide was issued following the introduction to the Australian Parliament of the Copyright Amendment Bill 2006, and the ACCC is now seeking comment on it from all interested parties. Once the Bill passes parliament and becomes law, the ACCC will issue a general information guide that takes into consideration comments made on the draft. The ACCC is seeking comment on all aspects of the guide, but is particularly interested in how the guide’s usefulness to copyright users can be improved.
Published: 28 November 2006
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The guide to the Oilcode
This guide provides information for industry participants in the downstream petroleum retail industry.
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Franchise bulletin—Being smart about your new franchise and your retail lease
This brochure explains your franchising retail lease agreement and your rights and obligations under the Trade Practices Act and the Franchising Code of Conduct.
Food and beverage industry: food descriptors guideline to the Trade Practices Act
This guide provides a trade practices perspective on industry representations about its food and beverage products. It is designed to help the owners of food and beverage businesses to understand the law as it generally applies to this area, together with examples of the types of claims businesses can, and cannot, make about their products and the context(s) in which such claims can be made.
A regime for the calculation and implementation of exit, access and termination fees charged by irrigation water delivery businesses in the southern Murray–Darling Basin
This document is an advice to the Australian, New South Wales, South Australian and Victorian governments. The advice was produced following a request by the Australian Government that the ACCC develop a consistent inter-jurisdictional framework for the use of exit and access fees charged by operators of irrigation water delivery networks (infrastructure operators) to assist the New South Wales, Victorian and South Australian governments in meeting their obligations under the National Water Initiative.
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Scams—protect your business from them
This article was published in ACCC's News for business. The article points out that scammers target small business. They rely on the fact that business owners are very busy and will provide requested information without thinking about it. It’s often not until the bill comes in that alarm bells begin to ring.
This edition of update presents topical issues concerning the franchising sector and includes articles covering the experiences of both the franchisee and franchisor. Franchising is one of the stars in Australia's booming economy and continues to draw attention as one of the most successful ways for small businesses to compete in the marketplace.
The ACCC's container stevedoring monitoring program is undertaken under a direction from the Federal Treasurer under Part VIIA of the Trade Practices Act to monitor prices, costs and profits of container terminal operator companies at the ports of Adelaide, Brisbane, Burnie, Fremantle, Melbourne and Sydney. This is the ACCC's eighth report for 2005–06.
