ACCC Chair Gina Cass-Gottlieb has outlined our annual compliance and enforcement priorities at the Committee for Economic Development of Australia event in Sydney today.
The priorities include consumer protection, promoting competitive markets, and clear and accurate pricing information for products and essential services.
Growth in passenger numbers has overtaken seating capacity, leading to fuller flights.
Domestic flights were fuller than they have been for some time, our latest report finds.
Our review of more than 2,000 Australian retail websites found concerning online shopping return policies. There is a risk that consumers may be mislead on their rights to exchange, refund or return a product.
We are urging consumers to shop around or at least to contact their electricity provider to ask if a cheaper electricity plan is available. This follows a decline in retail electricity prices in 2024 that many households aren't benefiting from.
We've released guidance to assist businesses and their advisers considering a merger in 2025, ahead of Australia’s new merger regime coming into effect.
“We prioritise the issues impacting the Australian economy, consumers and businesses in Australia.”
Our priorities
A new mandatory notification regime for mergers and acquisitions comes into effect from 1 January 2026, with a voluntary period from 1 July 2025.
The new regime is designed to strengthen Australia’s merger control and provide more certainty and transparency.
Changes to the law on unfair contract terms in consumer and small business contracts came into effect in November 2023.
We are working to help consumers and business understand the law around unfair contract terms and what the changes mean.
Consumers are now, more than ever, making purchasing decisions on environmental grounds.
We'll be investigating a number of businesses for making potentially false or misleading environmental claims.
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