Australia
By Year
2008
Inquiry by Senate Economics Committee into the Trade Practices Amendment (Cartel Conduct and Other Measures) Bill 2008
To Rpeport by 20 February 2009; Submissions due 20 January 2009.
Discussion Paper - Creeping Acquisitions
Open for comment until 10 October
Criminal Penalties for Serious Cartel Conduct - Draft legislation
Was open for comment until late Feb 2008
Inquiry by Senate Economics Committee into the Trade Practices Legislation Amendment Bill 2008
Report now available
Inquiry by Senate Economics into the Unit Pricing (Easy comparison of grocery prices) Bill 2008
Referred 17 June. Due to report by 2 September
Inquiry into the Trade Practices (Creeping Acquisitions) Amendment Bill 2007 [2008]
Referred on 26 June 2008. Due to report on 27 August 2008.
ACCC Grocery Inquiry 2008
Announced January 2008 - report finalised 31 July.
2007
ACCC Petrol Inquiry 2007
Inquiry into the Price of Unleaded Petrol - reported 17 December 2007
2004
Senate Inquiry into the Effectiveness of the Trade Practices Act 1974 in protecting small business (March 2004)
2003
Dawson Review 2003
Review of the Competition Provisions of the Trade Practices Act
2001
Productivity Commission's Review of the National Access Regime (2001)
Productivity Commission's Review of the Prices Surveillance Act 1983 (2001)
1997
Cultivating Competition - June 1997
Inquiry into aspects of the National Competition Policy Reform Package
Report from the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Financial Institutions and Public Administration
1993
Hilmer Review - National Competition Policy - 1993
National Competition Policy - Report by the Independent Committee of Inquiry
1991
Cooney Committee Report 1991
Adequacy of the existing legislative controls in the Trade Practices Act over mergers and acquisitions
1989
Griffiths Committee Report 1989
Mergers, Takeovers and Monopolies: Profiting from Competition?
Report of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs
1976
Swanson Committee 1976
Trade Practices Act Review Committee
By Type
Independent
Dawson Review 2003
Review of the Competition Provisions of the Trade Practices Act
Hilmer Review - National Competition Policy - 1993
National Competition Policy - Report by the Independent Committee of Inquiry
Swanson Committee 1976
Trade Practices Act Review Committee
Productivity Commission
Productivity Commission Submission to the Review of the Trade Practices Act 1974 (July 2002)
Includes discussion of s 46 and merger regulation
Productivity Commission's Review of the National Access Regime (2001)
Productivity Commission's Review of the Prices Surveillance Act 1983 (2001)
Government
Criminal Penalties for Serious Cartel Conduct - Draft legislation
Was open for comment until late Feb 2008
Senate
Inquiry by Senate Economics Committee into the Trade Practices Legislation Amendment Bill 2008
Due to report 27 August; submissions due by 21 July
Inquiry by Senate Economics into the Unit Pricing (Easy comparison of grocery prices) Bill 2008
Referred 17 June. Due to report by 2 September
Inquiry into the Trade Practices (Creeping Acquisitions) Amendment Bill 2007 [2008]
Referred on 26 June 2008. Due to report on 27 August 2008.
Senate Inquiry into the Effectiveness of the Trade Practices Act 1974 in protecting small business (March 2004)
Cooney Committee Report 1991
Adequacy of the existing legislative controls in the Trade Practices Act over mergers and acquisitions
House of Representaties
Cultivating Competition - June 1997
Inquiry into aspects of the National Competition Policy Reform Package
Report from the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Financial Institutions and Public Administration
Griffiths Committee Report 1989
Mergers, Takeovers and Monopolies: Profiting from Competition?
Report of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs
ACCC
ACCC Grocery Inquiry 2008
Announced January 2008 - due to report 31 July 2008
ACCC Petrol Inquiry 2007
Inquiry into the Price of Unleaded Petrol - reported 17 December 2007
ACCC Guidelines
Mergers
ACCC Merger Guidelines (November 2008)
These now replace the 1999 Guidelines
ACCC Formal Merger Process Guidelines (January 2007)
ACCC Merger Review Process Guidelines (July 2006)
Click here for an overview of these guidelines
Authorisations and Notifications
Guide to Collective Bargaining Notifications (Dec 2006)
Guide to Exclusive Dealing Notifications (Dec 2006)
Authorisations - new processes from 2007 (Dec 2006)
Relates to non-merger authorisations
International
For more international resources visit my International Competition Law page
Innovation and Dynamic Efficiencies in Merger Review (April 2007)
A Best Practice Review of the New Zealand Merger Clearance Regime (August 2007)
United States
Antitrust Modernisation Commission Reports
International Competition Policy Advisory Committee Reports
International
OECD - Dynamic Efficiencies in Merger Analysis (2007)
OECD - Report on Positive Comity (1999)
OECD - Report on Notification of Transnational Mergers (1999)