Tag: Reform
Australian Watchdog Looks To Reform Merger Laws
Gina Cass-Gottlieb, Chair of Australia's competition regulator, proposed reforms to the country's merger laws during a speech on Wednesday. She expressed concern that current...
UK Unveils New Post-Brexit Data Protection Reform
Last week the UK Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, Michelle Donelan, introduced the Data Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) Bill...
Australia Kicks Off Crypto Regulation Reform
On February 3, 2023, the Australian government published a consultation paper, exploring those elements of the cryptocurrency ecosystem which require additional regulation. This paper follows...
The ACCC’s Ongoing Digital Platforms Services Inquiry: Regulatory Reform
By Jacqueline Downes, Bella Cameron and Jamie Hick1
I. Introduction
This piece builds on our previous articles and publications2 covering the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's...
The New EU and UK Vertical Regimes: Improvements, Divergences, and Missed...
In 2022 both the EU and the UK overhauled their regimes governing vertical agreements following the expiry of Regulation 330/2010, which had block exempted...
Some Reflections of a Former Competition Agency Head
After 11 years as Chair of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission in this article Rod Sims reflects on a range of antitrust issues,...
Understanding Basic Principles and Facts About Antitrust to Create a Basis...
The debates around antitrust reform have sometimes involved participants taking extreme positions. In some sense, this is good because it helps attract attention and...
Looking Backwards and Forwards: What Does 25 Years of Competition Enforcement...
August 2022 marks the 25th anniversary of the publication of the draft Competition Bill in August 1997. Passing into law the following year, what...
Reforming the European Commission’s Enforcement of Cartel Law: The Case for...
Few would deny that the European Commission has an impressive track record with respect to anti-cartel enforcement. At present, however, a lacuna exists with...
The New Anti-Monopoly Law of the People’s Republic of China: Changes...
By Wei HAN & Liang LI*
On June 24, 2022, China passed the amended Anti-Monopoly Law of the People’s Republic of China (hereinafter the “Anti-Monopoly...
