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CALC - Consumer Action Law Centre

• CALC - Reforming the public benefit test in the Trade Practices Act (2007)

Related Galexia services and solutions Specialised Legal and Regulatory Consulting. Read more » CALC links CALC home page (external site) » Submission: “Reconnecting the Customer”- ACMA public inquiry consultation paper (external site) » “Consumer Action notes that in October 2008, Choice and Galexia released a report addressing the poor standard of consumer protection in the industry, titled Consumer Protection in the Communications Industry: Moving to best practice. The report made six recommendations including developing a set of core consumer protection principles in the telecommunications legislation, aligning the telecommunications code development processes to industry codes in other sectors, including independent code compliance monitoring, improved dispute resolution mechanisms and more power to independent regulators.”

CALC - Reforming the public benefit test in the Trade Practices Act (2007)

Galexia completed a report for the Consumer Action Law Centre, focussing on defining the ‘public benefit’ in Part VII of the Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth). It was completed as part of a project to identify weaknesses in the way in which the public benefit test is currently applied under the Act and to propose solutions that will ensure that consumers receive the protections they require when reductions in competition through mergers, acquisitions and collusions are considered. The report has a particular focus on the potential inclusion of social and environmental considerations in the public benefit test.

It has been produced as a result of a grant from the TPA Consumer Trust.

Read the full report » [PDF]

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