Sentences with phrase «as competition regulator»

«As competition regulator we need to be looking more broadly to study and work to improve the markets and the efficacy and efficiency.

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Recent attempts at mega-mergers, like BHP and Potash or Xtrata and Anglo, have been found wanting by investors who viewed them as unwieldy and destructive to per - share value, and by governments and regulators who found them detrimental to competition (or politically unpopular).

Specific rules that mention net neutrality or traffic prioritization and the like are still a minority, but it can be a matter of interpretation as to the application of more general regulation to do with competition issues by sector specific regulators or competition authorities.

As a result, the regulator also plans to hold a separate proceeding early next year to further probe the state of competition in the wholesale roaming market.

These changes often have been driven as much by Chinese bankers» need to please a varied group of regulators — whose own institutional biases are exacerbated by the competition, and even hostility, that exists among them — as by economic and financial factors.2

That's where Margrethe Vestager serves as the European Union's chief competition regulator — and it's a perch from which she's swiped at Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google even at a time when the U.S. government seems a little lost on how exactly to regulate the tech industry.

BEIJING China will form a powerful new competition and food safety regulator in a bid to ramp up oversight of mergers and acquisitions and price - fixing as the world's second - largest economy seeks to make policymaking more efficient.

Consumer groups want the competition regulator to apply the same pressure on airlines to slash fuel surcharges as it is on petrol retailers for price - gouging rural motorists.

The chairman was speaking after releasing a set of commitments that opens more CBH grains facilities to transport competition, that gives farmers a wider window to opt out of service contracts with the company and that embeds the regulator as the gatekeeper of pricing of train services.

Despite these attempted reforms, energy networks were still routinely seeking reviews of the regulators» decisions, essentially using the Australian Competition Tribunal as a second regulator.

At a tribunal hearing in Adelaide on Tuesday, the competition regulator tried to stall Murray Goulburn's application on the basis that as more investors accepted Saputo's bid, it had become more difficult to gather evidence.

In a provisional decision, the competition regulator alleged supermarkets Asda, Morrisons, Safeway, Sainsbury, and Tesco, as well as dairy processors Arla, Dairy Crest, Lactalis McLellan, the Cheese Company and Wiseman, collaborated to fix the retail price of milk, butter and cheese.

With huge margins achieved by Australia's fairly concentrated meat processing heavyweights such as Teys and JBS as well as smaller players in the last few years, there has been concern that cattle producers were being ripped off, sparking a parliamentary inquiry and a market study by the competition regulator.

On Thursday Mr Irvin also said the board will consider raising its own takeover offer for WCB as early as next week, after Bega received the all clear from the competition regulator.

This is followed by an «information request», seeking feedback on the merits of each option (ACCC or ASIC as regulator responsible for advancing competition)

Monitor's role as economic regulator enforcing competition alongside the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) would also be broughtcompetition alongside the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) would also be broughtCompetition and Markets Authority (CMA) would also be brought to an end.

Referring to the «marketplace» of residential children's homes, Gove explained: «We are working with competition experts and economic regulators, as well as private and local authority providers, to improve the commissioning system in this market.»

As a result, regulators with Draconian powers have been called upon to provide artificial competition and to control profits through the imposition of special «targets», which probably provide more distortion in the marketplace than ever before.

Instead, the model came under attack from US regulators who saw it as a competition violation.

The ruling discussed at the top of this post was issued by Ofcom — which describes itself as the «Independent regulator and competition authority for the UK communications industries.»

Unlike in other fields, such as Competition law, there is no pan-European regulator to oversee compliance with EU data protection rules in multi-jurisdictional investigations.

Second, the court held that in order for the RCD to apply, separate and formal legislative action is not required if a regulator already has the regulatory authority to take actions that might otherwise violate the Competition Act (in this case, the LCBO's authority to enter into contracts such as the Beer Framework Agreement).

The advantages are greatest when the case arises as a «follow - on» action from a finding of anti-competitive behaviour by a competition regulator.

City - based competition partner Suyong Kim took the lead for WilmerHale as Morrisons claimed compensation totalling # 100,000 after a dispute with the OFT relating to the regulator's dairy cartel investigations.

The Government announced on 30 November that it will launch its own consultation in Spring 2016 into removing barriers to entry for alternative business models and making legal service regulators independent from their representative bodies to encourage competition, better enabling, for example business such as supermarkets and estate agents to offer legal services such as conveyancing, probate and litigation.

Stephen Ward, director of strategy and external relations at the Council for Licensed Conveyancers said: «This study provides useful evidence as the legal sector regulators continue to shape our responses to recommendations from the Competition and Markets Authority on making more information available to help consumers choose their lawyer.

In my opinion, a good regulator needs to start with a clear set of regulatory objectives, and needs to design a regulatory system that meets those objectives; objectives such as maintaining rule of law, access to justice, assuring consumer outcomes, promotion of competition.

She advises many of the key industry participants including Anglo American, Vale, Peabody Energy, Glencore and QCoal, as well as key regulator the Queensland Competition Authority.

Ronit regularly appears in the High Court, Competition Appeal Tribunal and Court of Justice in Luxembourg, as case leader, as well as defending clients before a range of competition and industry Competition Appeal Tribunal and Court of Justice in Luxembourg, as case leader, as well as defending clients before a range of competition and industry competition and industry regulators.

It avoids a situation where the regulator is obliged to conclude that a market is effectively competitive on the basis of existing regulation, ie Ofcom's ex post dispute resolution powers and / or the E2E obligation, whereby, as a result of the decision not to impose an ex ante remedy, competition in the market could again be distorted.

The competition between sector regulators and the FCA's desire to be regarded as «first among equals» may also motivate further competition enforcement.

As legal secretary to the CAT he was involved in all the first «landmark appeals against the decisions of the OFT and sectoral regulators under the Competition Act 1998, reviews of merger control decisions under the Enterprise Act 2002 and the first «follow on» claims for damages brought in the Tribunal under the 1998 Act.

The reckless disconnect between the Competition Bureau and the regulators should be viewed as worrisome to the consumer, brokers, agents, law makers, privacy advocates and regulators alike.

For a regulator to legally command all licensees (including non-members) to use intellectual property owned by a trade association, as opposed to the regulator opens a Pandora's Box in terms of individual rights and competition law.