House of Representatives Standing Committee on Financial Institutions and Public Administration
Review of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission annual
report 1995-96
The Committee tabled its report Review of the Australian Competition
and Consumer Commission annual report 1995-96 in June 1997. Copies
of the full report are available in PDF format (90KB)
and from the Committee Secretariat.
(To view or print the PDF document, you will require the Acrobat PDF
Reader, which can be downloaded free of charge from Adobe.)
Government response to the Committee's
report was tabled on 3 March 1998. The Chairman issued a media release
on 6 March 1998 commenting on the Government
response.
Table of contents of report
FOREWORD
MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE
TERMS OF REFERENCE
LIST OF RECOMMENDATIONS
CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER TWO: ESTABLISHMENT OF THE AUSTRALIAN COMPETITION AND CONSUMER
COMMISSION
Background
Functions and powers
New environment/ new work
Promoting competition, and safeguarding consumers
CHAPTER THREE: MERGERS
Background
Issues and industry/ business response
Concentration thresholds
Market definition
The authorisation process
Public benefit
Section 87B undertakings
Issues and industry/ business comment
CHAPTER FOUR: CONCLUSION
Mergers
Competition and consumer benefits
Monitoring and evaluation of outcomes
APPENDIX 1: LIST OF SUBMISSIONS
APPENDIX 2: LIST OF HEARINGS AND WITNESSES (A copy of the public hearing
transcript is available in PDF
format)
Speeches Tabling
speech: Mr D Hawker MP (Chairman), 23 June 1997.
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