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The ACCC has issued a draft determination proposing to grant authorisation to enable Metropolitan Waste and Resource Recovery and a group of thirteen Councils in metropolitan Melbourne to jointly procure organic waste processing services through the South Eastern Organics Group. Authorisation is proposed to run until 10 July 2032.
In December 2020 the ACCC issued a public warning notice about the alleged conduct of Dismissals Direct Pty Ltd, trading as Unfair Dismissals Direct, a company that represented employees in unfair dismissal claims before the Fair Work Commission.
The ACCC has granted interim authorisation to enable Screen Producers Australia (SPA) and its members to continue to collectively negotiate with the Australian Writers’ Guild (AWG), Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA), and the Australian Directors’ Guild (ADG) and the members of these organisations.
The ACCC has decided to re-authorise the Australian Retail Credit Association Ltd (ARCA) and current and future signatories to the Principles of Reciprocity and Data Exchange (the PRDE), to give effect to certain reciprocity, consistency and enforceability provisions contained in the PRDE, for a further 6 years until 31 December 2026.
The ACCC has granted re-authorisation to enable eRx Script Exchange Pty Ltd (eRx) to continue to give effect to a revenue sharing arrangement with IP MDS Pty Ltd (formerly MediSecure Pty Ltd) (MDS).
The ACCC has varied the reporting conditions that apply to the authorisation granted to the Australian Banking Association in 2019 in relation to its Banking Code. The authorisation related to provisions of the Banking Code that were introduced in response to recommendations of the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry, in particular in relation to changing banking products and practices to improve outcomes for low-income account holders.
The ACCC proposes to revoke authorisations A91470 and A91471 and grant authorisation AA1000526 in substitution to enable Qantas and China Eastern Airlines to give effect to an extended Joint Coordination Agreement under which the airlines will continue to coordinate their operations between Australia and mainland China until March 2022.
The ACCC has issued a draft determination proposing to authorise an amended version of the Shopping Centre Council of Australia’s Casual Mall Licensing Code of Practice. The ACCC has also granted interim authorisation to allow the SCCA to continue to give effect to the code authorised in 2017 while the ACCC continues its application assessment.
The ACCC has issued a final determination granting authorisation to enable the National Honda Dealer Council and a group of Honda Australia dealers, to collectively negotiate with Honda Australia issues arising from Honda Australia’s termination of existing dealer agreements and their replacement with a new agency model.
The ACCC has issued a final determination granting authorisation to enable Boral Cement Limited and Stanwell Corporation Limited to give effect to an Offtake, Operation & Maintenance Agreement.
The ACCC has granted authorisation to the Clean Energy Council’s (CEC) Solar Retailer Code of Conduct. The Solar Code sets minimum standards for retailers selling solar photovoltaic systems to consumers. Retailers who are signatories to the code must comply with standards covering advertising, contract documentation, finance and payments, design and installation, and complaints handling. The ACCC last authorised the Solar Code in 2015.
The ACCC has decided to re-authorise the Australian Retail Credit Association Ltd (ARCA) and current and future signatories to the Principles of Reciprocity and Data Exchange (the PRDE), to give effect to certain reciprocity, consistency and enforceability provisions contained in the PRDE, until 31 December 2026.
The ACCC proposes to grant re-authorisation to enable eRx Script Exchange Pty Ltd (eRx) to continue to give effect to a revenue sharing arrangement with IP MDS Pty Ltd (formerly MediSecure Pty Ltd) (MDS). The revenue sharing arrangement facilitates the interoperability between the parties’ electronic pharmaceutical prescription exchange systems. This means that patients can go to any pharmacy to get medicine, regardless of which system the doctor uses.
The ACCC has not objected to the notification lodged by the Premium Milk Ltd to enable it to collectively negotiate on behalf of its current and future dairy producer members for the supply of raw milk to Lactalis Australia Ltd, Norco Co-Operative Limited, Dairy Farmers Milk Cooperative/Lion and other processors.
More than 17,500 cars with deadly Takata airbags remain on the streets of Sydney, according to new figures which highlight the locations which have the most airbags yet to be replaced.
More than 11,500 cars with deadly Takata airbags remain on the streets of Brisbane and the Gold Coast, Tweed Heads and Sunshine Coast area, according to new figures which highlight the locations which have the most airbags yet to be replaced.
More than 21,000 cars with deadly Takata airbags remain on the streets of suburban Melbourne, according to new figures which highlight the locations which have the most airbags yet to be replaced.
The ACCC has issued a draft determination proposing to grant authorisation to enable the National Honda Dealer Council and a group of Honda dealers to discuss and collectively negotiate with Honda Australia in relation to issues arising from Honda Australia’s termination of existing dealer agreements and their replacement with a new agency model.
The ACCC has issued a determination granting authorisation, until 31 December 2020, to enable Ingham’s, Turosi, Hazeldene’s Chicken Farm and the Australian Chicken Meat Federation (the representative body for the chicken meat industry) to engage in limited coordination through a ‘COVID Working Group’ to reduce the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated Victorian restrictions on the chicken meat industry.
The ACCC has granted interim authorisation to South Australian Oyster Growers Association Inc (SAOGA) and a number of oyster hatcheries to continue to participate in an oyster spat (juvenile oysters) levy agreement that has been operating since 1999.