Major supermarket retailers will form part of a Soft Plastics Taskforce to explore solutions to address the immediate effects of REDcycle suspending its return-to-store soft plastics recovery program, following a conditional ACCC interim authorisation.
Coles, Woolworths and ALDI lodged an urgent application for interim authorisation last week.
The ACCC is seeking submissions on a draft determination issued today proposing to deny authorisation to an extension of a Charter Alliance Agreement between Virgin Australia Airlines, Virgin Australia Regional Airlines (VARA) (together Virgin Australia) and Alliance Aviation Services (ASX:AQZ) and Alliance Airlines Pty Ltd (together, Alliance Airlines).
A business that is planning an activity that will or may breach competition law can seek an exemption. This gives the business protection from legal action over the conduct.
The ACCC has granted authorisation for Virgin Australia to enter into codeshare pricing arrangements with its international airline partners for 5 years.
Virgin Australia’s international airline partners include United Airlines, Qatar Airways and other airlines that operate long-haul international routes.
Under the arrangements, Virgin Australia’s international airline partners will set the fares for long-haul international flights that Virgin Australia may market and resell to consumers.
The pharmaceutical manufacturing company Celgene and generic drug companies, Juno and Natco have withdrawn their application to the ACCC for an authorisation for the provisions of a settlement and licence agreement. The companies sought ACCC authorisation to settle a patent dispute before the Federal Court of Australia.
The withdrawal of the request for authorisation follows the ACCC’s draft determination and ends the ACCC’s consideration of this issue.
The ACCC has issued a draft determination proposing to authorise Telstra and NBN Co and their related entities to amend agreements that they entered into from 2011 and 2014 which facilitated the rollout of the national broadband network.
The existing agreements, authorised under statute, provide the necessary legal certainty that certain conduct would not contravene Australian competition laws. This conduct is not the subject of any previous or existing ACCC authorisations.
The ACCC proposes to deny authorisation for the provisions of a settlement and licence agreement between Celgene and generic drug companies, Juno and Natco. The companies are seeking authorisation to settle a patent dispute currently before the Federal Court of Australia.
The Australian Competition Tribunal has today denied authorisation for the NSW Minerals Council and ten mining companies to collectively negotiate the terms and conditions, including price, of access to the Port of Newcastle to export coal and other minerals.
The ACCC has granted an urgent interim authorisation permitting the cooperation and sharing of information by companies in the supply chain to ensure critical retail goods, including food supplies, are able to reach consumer and businesses in Western Australia (WA) and the Northern Territory (NT).