A revised consumer product safety standard for paper patterns for children’s nightwear and limited daywear became effective on 1 November 1999. The mandatory standard aims to reduce the risk of n...

The Water Act 2007 (the Act) creates new institutional and governance arrangements to address the sustainability and management of water resources in the Murray-Darling Basin (the Basin). The Act b...

A new mandatory safety standard for prams and strollers takes effect from 1 July 2008. The standard requires that prams and strollers sold in Australia have a number of safety features, including a...

This guide provides an overview of the mandatory requirements for children’s prams and strollers.

If you sell prams and strollers, you need to be aware of the mandatory consumer product safety standard for prams and strollers. This fact sheet outlines the requirements of the standard.

A4 brochure: This News for business outlines the views of the ACCC on price advertising obligations under the Trade Practices Act 1974. It applies to businesses making price representations to othe...

A4 brochure: This News for business has been developed to provide the travel industry with practical guidance about issues relating to price advertising under the Act as it currently stands.

A4 brochure: This News for business discusses price fixing—one of the most misunderstood areas of trade practices law. Price fixing is collusion between businesses on the price goods and ser...

This report presents the results of price monitoring by the ACCC for the seven price-monitored airports for the 2003–04 financial year. The seven price–monitored airports are: Adela...

This brochure is a guide to identifying trade practices risks in primary industries. Important notice Please see the attached important notice about changes to the Trade Practices Act 1974 tha...

This report outlines the principles that the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) will apply when considering whether to publicly disclose information that Australia Post claims is...

Brochure: Sets out ways in which consumers, suppliers and government can contribute effectively to safe product outcomes.

An unsafe goods notice temporarily banning the supply of children's toys with a lead migration level of greater than 90 mg/kg was declared on 19 September 2007. The ban took effect immediately and ...

An unsafe goods notice banning the supply of toothpaste containing more than 0.25 per cent by weight of diethylene glycol (DEG) was declared on 3 August 2007. The ban took effect immediately.

An eighteen-month temporary ban on mini-cup jellies containing konjac was recently announced. This followed a substantial number of deaths and near deaths overseas and in Australia. The ban came in...

The mandatory consumer product safety standard specifies requirements for the design, construction, performance and labelling of vehicle jacks.

A revised consumer product safety standard for pedal bicycles became effective on 1 November 1999. Compliance with consumer product safety standards is mandatory. This means that all suppliers of p...

Brochure from the International Consumer Protection and Enforcement Network/Réseau international de contrôle et de protection des consommateurs. Consumer protection law enforcement agencies respe...

Book, B5: This is the fifth ACCC monitoring report examining costs and premiums and the effect of reforms on insurers. This report covers the full year 2004 and supersedes the fourth report dated J...

The ACCC asked several major insurers in the public liability and professional indemnity insurance sectors to provide quantitative and qualitative information on costs and premiums in their insuran...

Book, B5: This is the fourth ACCC monitoring report in a series of four. This report updates a subset of information in the first three reports by including an additional six months of data fr...

This is the second of four ACCC monitoring reports. This report updates a subset of information in the first report by including an additional six months of data from insurers and examines costs an...

This is the third of four ACCC monitoring reports. This report updates a subset of information in the first two reports by including an additional six months of data from insurers for the year...