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

Canada

Innovation and Dynamic Efficiencies in Merger Review (April 2007)

New Zealand

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)