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	Australian Competition and Consumer Commission - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is an independent Australian commonwealth government authority established in 1995 from the amalgamation of the Australian Trade Practices Commission (TPC) and the Prices Surveillance Authority, to protect consumer rights, business rights and obligations, perform industry regulation and price monitoring and prevent unauthorised anti-competitive behaviour.
		On its consumer protection side, it has the power to investigate and litigate undue harassment in debt collection and misleading or deceptive claims in advertising.
		In 2005, the section of the ACCC responsible for economic energy regulation was hived off and formed into a separate legal entity called the Australian Energy Regulator (AER).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Australian_Competition_and_Consumer_Commission (741 words)

	Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
		The Commission seeks to maintain and improve competition and efficiency in markets, foster adherence to fair trading practices in well informed markets, promote competitive pricing wherever possible and restrain price rises in markets where competition is less than effective.
		In the 1999-2000 Budget the Government provided the ACCC with $28 million over three years to monitor retail prices and to report to the Treasurer on instances where consumers have not benefited from reductions in the tax rate, or have been exposed to greater than necessary price rises.
		ACCC policy and positions formulated - discussion documents and guidelines on competition initiatives and regulatory mechanisms be prepared, disseminated and discussions take place with Government, industry and consumers.
	www.budget.gov.au /2000-01/pbs/html/accc-01.htm (2124 words)

	Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
		The agencies responsible for the enforcement of consumer protection laws in Australia are the ACCC (at the federal level), and the consumer protection bureaux or offices of fair trading in each of the States and Territories.
		The Commission regards the Part 6 co-regulatory regime as entirely appropriate for the development and maintenance of consumer protection standards for the Australian telecommunications industry, and the codes and complaints handling mechanisms developed through this regime have the potential to be hugely effective in achieving high consumer protection standards.
		Consumers engaging in global electronic transactions may be unable to make informed decisions because of their inability to examine goods before purchase or to see the trader's workplace and staff, and ask questions face to face.
	www.ftc.gov /bcp/icpw/comments/accc.htm (11251 words)

	Australian Competition and Consumer Commission v C G Berbatis Holdings Pty Ltd Curbing Unconscionability: Berbatis in ...
		Rather, it was the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (‘ACCC’), exercising its powers under the Act, that initiated proceedings in the Federal Court seeking injunctive relief and a declaration that the owners had contravened (inter alia) s 51AA of the Act.
		In particular, the ACCC submitted that the Full Court erred in construing s 51AA as requiring that the Roberts’ wills had to be ‘so overborne that they did not act independently and voluntarily.’[23] This, the argument went, was to confuse unconscionable conduct with notions associated with common law duress and non est factum.
		In a joint judgment, Gummow and Hayne JJ (Kirby J agreeing on this point)[28] accepted the ACCC’s submission against the Full Court’s construction of s 51AA, which apparently required that the will of the individual in question be so overborne as to rob his or her jural act of its independent and voluntary nature.
	www.austlii.edu.au /au/journals/MULR/2004/6.html (11107 words)

	ACCC protecting franchising (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Where the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission approves a collective bargaining group, that group can commence negotiations that may involve price fixing and other exclusionary tactics, which until now have been illegal.
		In the first 12 months after the commencement of the legislation, the ACCC may be granted a period of 28 days to consider applications as an interim measure, however, this is not contained in the proposed legislation.
		Liaison with the ACCC should be commenced to confirm that it is aware of the public benefit interests of the franchisor, franchisee and third parties so that the ACCC will be inclined to issue an objection notice to a CBN issued by the franchisor’s franchisees or other competitors or suppliers to the franchisor.
	www.franchisebusiness.com.au /articles/95/0C03FB95.aspx (3102 words)

	Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
		The ACCC seeks to maintain and improve competition and efficiency in markets, foster adherence to fair trading practices in well informed markets, promote competitive pricing wherever possible and restrain price rises in markets where competition is less than effective.
		The Government will provide the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission with additional funding to maintain service delivery standards and to improve service delivery in priority areas such as e-commerce and rural and regional issues.
		Establishment of Rural and Regional Advisory Committee by December 2001 to advise ACCC of competition and consumer issues and to assist ACCC in promoting its activities in remote locations.
	www.budget.gov.au /2001-02/pbs/html/accc-01.htm (1184 words)

	ADF: An Imbalance of Power - Australian Competition and Consumer Commission v Australian Doctor Groups
		In late 1997, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) which had replaced the Trade Practices Commission, instituted proceedings against five anaesthetists and the Australian Society of Anaesthetists (ASA) on the grounds of price-fixing for after-hours services at three Sydney hospitals and a threatened boycott of services at one of the hospitals.
		The ACCC alleged that the anaesthetists agreed to charge $25 for on-call services and that the ASA was knowingly concerned in, or party to, one or more of the arrangements.
		The onus is then on the ACCC to review the conduct and determine whether the public benefit obtained from the conduct outweighs the anti-competitive detriment constituted by a lessening of competition.
	www.adf.com.au /archive.php?doc_id=42 (6498 words)

	Consumer protection - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Consumer protection is linked to the idea of consumer rights (that consumers have various rights as consumers), and to the formation of consumer organizations which help consumers make better choices in the marketplace.
		Consumer protection law or consumer law is considered an area of public law that regulates private law relationships between individual consumers and the businesses that sell them goods and services.
		In the UK, consumer laws are enforced nationally by the Office of Fair Trading[1] which is the UK's consumer and competition watchdog, with a remit to make markets work well for consumers, and at a local, municipal level by Trading Standards departments.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Consumer_protection (701 words)

	Global Competition Forum - Laws of South Pacific
		Public enforcement of competition law is the responsibility of the Commerce Commission, which may initiate an investigation into an alleged breach of the Commerce Act either following a complaint or as a result of its own surveillance activities.
		The Commission has recently noted that its first strategic priority is to maximise the effectiveness of its enforcement activity in relation to anticompetitive, false, and misleading behaviour.
		The objective of the arrangement is to promote co-operation and co-ordination among the three agencies in relation to the application of the competition and consumer laws that they enforce.
	www.globalcompetitionforum.org /oceania.htm (1486 words)

	Rip Off Report:Australian Competition & Consumer Commission Midas Australia Australian Government Regulator for the ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The more I read about the ACCC, their charter, their speeches regarding their responsibilities and achievements and various Parliamentary papers, the more I realise that quite simply, they have no defense for not acting upon the complaints of Midas franchisees and the complaints of so many other victims and groups of victims.
		The ACCC have a responsibility to regulate, and enforce, the TPA.
		To maintain the basic right of Australians to have access to justice is an obligation of government and it is clearly denied to many Australians by the ACCC for ulterior motives.
	www.ripoffreport.com /reports/ripoff123507.htm (1708 words)

	Competition Bureau - Cooperation Arrangement Between the Commissioner of Competition (Canada), the Australian ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Competition Bureau - Cooperation Arrangement Between the Commissioner of Competition (Canada), the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and the New Zealand Commerce Commission Regarding the Application of their Competition and Consumer Laws
		Notifications will include the nature of the activities under investigation and the competition and consumer law provisions concerned and will be sufficiently detailed to enable the notified Party to make an initial evaluation of the effect of the activities on its interests in the application of its competition and consumer laws.
		It is in the Parties' common interest to minimize any potentially adverse effects of one Party's enforcement activities on the other Parties' interests in the application of their competition and consumer laws.
	www.competitionbureau.gc.ca /internet/index.cfm?itemID=1595&lg=e (1107 words)

	Linux PR: Cybersource takes Microsoft Monopoly to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
		Microsoft's anti-competitive tactics are hurting Australian consumers to the tune of $200 million every year.
		Cybersource is calling on the ACCC (Australian Competition and Consumer Commission) to level this playing field and allow competitors like ourselves to compete against Microsoft on our merits.
		When one vendor has over 95% of the market, that vendor should be bound by a universal service obligation to ensure that all consumers can access the content, documents and data which reside on that vendor's platform.
	www.linuxpr.com /releases/7994.html (592 words)

	Australian Competition Tribunal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The full text of decisions of the Australian Competition Tribunal are at AustLII.
		The Australian Competition Tribunal was established under the Trade Practices Act 1965 and continues under the Trade Practices Act 1974 ('the Act').
		Authorisations are granted by the Commission permitting conduct and arrangements (including company mergers and acquisitions) to be carried on that would otherwise be prohibited under the Act because of their anti-competitive effect.
	www.fedcourt.gov.au /aboutct/aboutct_admin_other_act.html (498 words)

	Submission by the Australian Doctors Trained Overseas Association
		It is particularly the case that the ACCC should be in a position to investigate the processes and practices of the College due to the fear that most doctors have of taking legal action.
		We suggest that the ACCC ask the RACS to submit data showing the number of applications for membership over the last 20 years and the rates of acceptance/denial, the reasons for the outcome and the results of appeal proceedings.
		Even then, the ACCC’s ability to win a case is limited by the lack of hard evidence, the unwillingness of overseas-trained doctors to speak out and threats to members of the College if they speak out.
	www.uow.edu.au /arts/sts/bmartin/dissent/documents/Iredale2.html (6571 words)

	Centre for Competition and Consumer Policy
		The Centre for Competition and Consumer Policy is a specialised research centre within the
		The research at the Centre focuses on three main themes: compliance, internationalisation and the operation of the public benefit test within Australian competition law.
		The Centre represents a three to six year research partnership with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.
	www.cccp.anu.edu.au (145 words)

	Australian Competition and Consumer Commission v Gary Peer and Associates Pty Ltd [2005] FCA 404
		Australian Competition and Consumer Commission v Gary Peer and Associates Pty Ltd [2005] FCA 404
		He said that because the Property was in the same area and of the same size as 343, the same kind of advertising should be used.
		I explained that the idea of a bonus commission was to give the agent a reward for working hard to achieve an exceptional result and that if the Vendors wanted to include a bonus payment they should select a price above which they would be extremely happy and willing without hesitation to pay more commission.
	cclsr.law.unimelb.edu.au /judgments/states/federal/2005/april/2005fca404.htm (5891 words)

	Consumer Policy — Australian Government, The Treasury (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Treasury releases consumer policy information on specific topics such as choice of superannuation funds, financial literacy, e-commerce, the consumer credit code, and complaints and enquiries.
		The Consumer Rights section of the ACCC website provides important and useful information on warranties and refunds, misleading advertising, product safety, petrol prices, debt collection as well as many other publications for consumers.
		The Congress is a major event on the consumer policy calendar, it will provide an important opportunity for the Government to obtain firsthand the views of attendees on key consumer issues and perspectives on the way forward in the area of consumer policy.
	treasury.gov.au /content/consumer_affairs.asp?ContentID=270&...+Policy (461 words)

	AUSTRALIAN COMPETITION AND CONSUMER COMMISSION: ACCC resolves.. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The ACCC is one of the first regulators in the world to seek the specific removal of 'light' and 'mild' descriptors, which goes further than a 2001 European Directive on descriptors and the World Health Organisation's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, which was ratified by Australia in late February this year.
		The ACCC's investigations led the ACCC to the view that the tobacco companies, in using descriptors on cigarette brands and packaging such as 'light', 'mild', 'medium' etc and numbers (ie.
		'1','4', '7' etc), represented to consumers through the descriptors and related marketing and packaging that there were health benefits in smoking those brands (known as low yield cigarettes due to claimed machine tested average lower yields of tar, nicotine and carbon monoxide) compared to higher yielding or full strength cigarette brands.
	www.amex.com /newsDetails/CmnNewsDet.jsp?id=XpressFeed_NewsDetails_1115888596742.html (656 words)

	Australian Competition and Consumer Commission warns fruit juice industry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Misleading claims in the fruit juice industry about alleged nutritional, health and therapeutic benefits of certain ingredients will be targeted by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, ACCC chairman, Graeme Samuel, has warned.
		“The ACCC is particularly concerned about the growing use of health claims widely used to promote fruit juice, smoothie and related juice products being sold in juice bars.
		“Clearly consumers have embraced the juice bar concept but the ACCC is concerned that profits should not include benefits from misleading and deceptive conduct,” Samuel says.
	www.franchisebusiness.com.au /articles/75/0C040875.aspx (540 words)

	The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and the TGA
		Their successor, the Australian Competition Tribunal, is now considering new advertising legislation which will put control in the hands of bureaucracy and your competitors to effectively stifle competition throughout Australia.
		At a meeting instigated by the Proprietary Medicines Association at 10.30 today, Mr John Cable, a senior TGA executive, stated to our solicitor that the TGA's intention was now to bypass authorisation by the Australian Competition Tribunal and have the new code passed by Parliament without further discussion.
		Health Professionals and consumers would have to be closely involved in the establishment of a code of conduct, which would also have to be endorsed by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.
	www.pnc.com.au /~cafmr/online/freedom/accc.html (1259 words)

	Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) - City of Boroondara
		Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) - City of Boroondara
		The ACCC is responsible for ensuring compliance with the Trade Practices Act and administers the Prices Surveillance Act.
		Links to other websites or information sources are provided as a courtesy, however we cannot vouch for or take responsibility for the information contained in any links.
	www.boroondara.vic.gov.au /about/business/links/accc (55 words)

	ADCQ home page
		The Anti-Discrimination Commission Queensland is an independent statutory authority which administers the Anti-Discrimination Act 1991.
		An Act to promote equality of opportunity for everyone by protecting them from unfair discrimination in certain areas of activity and from sexual harassment and certain associated objectionable conduct.
		The Commission has offices in Brisbane, Rockhampton, Townsville and Cairns.
	www.adcq.qld.gov.au (87 words)

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		“Consumers are the largest single group in the population,” said Anna Stewart, member of the Executive Committee of the Consumers’ Federation of Australia.
		“And strong, effective and up-to-date consumer protection laws allow consumers to engage in markets with confidence.” Consumer protection laws are the responsibility of Commonwealth, State and Territory Governments, and as a result there can be overlaps and inconsistencies between jurisdictions.
		The eight consumer rights are: the right to satisfaction of basic needs; the right to safety; the right to be informed; the right to choose; the right to be heard; the right to redress; the right to a consumer education; the right to a healthy environment.
	www.consumersfederation.com /documents/MediaReleaseWCRD150305.doc (546 words)

	Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) - BuddeComm
		The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) was established in 1995 and then given responsibility for competition regulation of the telecommunications industry in 1997.
		The particular responsibilities under Parts XIB and XIC of the Trade Practices Act for anti-competitive conduct and access issues, respectively, are presented here.
		A full list of declared services, competition notices and access determinations relating to the telecommunications sector is included.
	www.budde.com.au /Reports/Contents/Australian-Competition-and-Consumer-Commission-ACCC-2085.html (148 words)

	Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Trans-Tasman brewer Lion Nathan is reported to be considering issuing a hybrid equity instrument to help fund a A$1 billion ($1.15 billion) bid for New Zealand drinks group, Independent Liquor.
		Hybrid equity is a form of permanent capital with characteristics both of debt and equity, and can include subordinated...
		Competition bodies agree on protocol for dealing with mergers
	www.nzherald.co.nz /organisation/index.cfm?o_id=417 (227 words)

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