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		<title>Mis-Selling and the Responsibilities of Consumers</title>
		<link>http://competitionpolicy.wordpress.com/2012/01/28/mis-selling-and-the-responsibilities-of-consumers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 21:19:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andreas Stephan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(By Robert Sugden) The Financial Services Authority (FSA) is in the process of being split into two parts.  From early 2013, its consumer protection functions will be taken over by a new agency, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), headed by Martin Wheatley.  Last week, in an address to the British Bankers’ Association and in an interview [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=competitionpolicy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9861001&amp;post=656&amp;subd=competitionpolicy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No Smoke Without Fire?  Was the CAT right to quash the OFT decision on the alleged tobacco price fixing conspiracy?</title>
		<link>http://competitionpolicy.wordpress.com/2011/12/16/no-smoke-without-fire-was-the-cat-right-to-quash-the-oft-decision-on-the-alleged-tobacco-price-fixing-conspiracy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Lyons</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Agreements Between Buyers and Sellers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(by Bruce Lyons) On 16th April 2010, the OFT imposed a record total fine of £225m on two tobacco companies and ten retailers who they decided had engaged in practices that breached competition law.  The heart of the case was around ‘parity and differential requirements’ (PDR) of the form that, say, Imperial Tobacco requires that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=competitionpolicy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9861001&amp;post=646&amp;subd=competitionpolicy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BHP Billiton Refuses to Participate in Canada’s Potash Export Cartel</title>
		<link>http://competitionpolicy.wordpress.com/2011/12/07/bhp-billiton-refuses-to-participate-in-canadas-potash-export-cartel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 19:13:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andreas Stephan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(by Andreas Stephan) The Anglo-Australian mining giant has refused to include its large new mine in Saskatchewan, in Canada’s long standing potash export cartel.  In 2010 the Canadian government blocked BHP Billiton’s attempted takeover of a Canadian Potash corporation because they feared the breakup of the export cartel, on the grounds that it would not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=competitionpolicy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9861001&amp;post=644&amp;subd=competitionpolicy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Should we Regulate the Structure of Consumer Tariffs to Make Competition Work Better? Two Cheers for Ofgem</title>
		<link>http://competitionpolicy.wordpress.com/2011/12/01/should-we-regulate-the-structure-of-consumer-tariffs-to-make-competition-work-better-two-cheers-for-ofgem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:52:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Lyons</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Institutions implementing competition policy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(by Catherine Waddams) The UK energy regulator today published its heavily trailed and significant proposals to constrain the regular tariffs which energy companies can offer to residential consumers. Ofgem’s proposals to simplify energy tariffs are an excellent start, but will they be enough to get consumers active in the market?  Just as important, will they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=competitionpolicy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9861001&amp;post=640&amp;subd=competitionpolicy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If Virgin Gets to Keep Its Immunity, Who is Responsible for the Collapse of the BA Trial?</title>
		<link>http://competitionpolicy.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/if-virgin-gets-to-keep-its-immunity-who-is-responsible-for-the-collapse-of-the-ba-trial/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andreas Stephan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(by Andreas Stephan) This week the Office of Fair Trading announced that Virgin Atlantic would keep its immunity in the Passenger Fuel Surcharges cartel case.  This is despite the criminal case against four BA executives collapsing after thousands of previously undisclosed emails from Virgin were presented to the OFT during the trial. The OFT had [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=competitionpolicy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9861001&amp;post=633&amp;subd=competitionpolicy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Will IMF Requirement that Ireland Strengthen Competition Law Sanctions Actually Make a Difference?</title>
		<link>http://competitionpolicy.wordpress.com/2011/10/31/will-imf-requirement-that-ireland-strengthen-competition-law-sanctions-actually-make-a-difference/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 14:58:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andreas Stephan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(by Andreas Stephan) The Republic of Ireland is facing the most serious economic crisis in its history. In order to deal with its sovereign debt crisis, it has had to accept a painful and far reaching Programme of Financial Support from the EU and the IMF. As part of this, Ireland is required to “introduce [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=competitionpolicy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9861001&amp;post=623&amp;subd=competitionpolicy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Supermarket Price Guarantees – and then there were three</title>
		<link>http://competitionpolicy.wordpress.com/2011/10/14/supermarket-price-guarantees-%e2%80%93-and-then-there-were-three/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 17:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Lyons</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(by Morten Hviid) Sainsbury’s has now joined its two larger rivals, Tesco and Asda, in offering consumers a price guarantee with an associated possible refund. An interesting aspect of the three guarantees is that they differ on fundamental aspects. Asda promises to beat the rivals by 10% and the guarantee is valid even if Asda [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=competitionpolicy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9861001&amp;post=619&amp;subd=competitionpolicy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Grolsch Cartel Fine Annulment: Should Parent Companies Pay for the Anti-Competitive Conduct of a Subsidiary?</title>
		<link>http://competitionpolicy.wordpress.com/2011/09/18/grolsch-cartel-fine-annulment-should-parent-companies-pay-for-the-anti-competitive-conduct-of-a-subsidiary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2011 08:54:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andreas Stephan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(by Andreas Stephan) The General Court has annulled a €36.6m fine imposed on Grolsch for the price fixing of beer in Holland. In its decision, the European Commission had treated Koninklijke Grolsch NV and its subsidiary as a single economic entity and calculated fines accordingly.  This is important.  The maximum fine is capped at 10% [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=competitionpolicy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9861001&amp;post=605&amp;subd=competitionpolicy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What the Cunning Fox Really Wants</title>
		<link>http://competitionpolicy.wordpress.com/2011/07/12/what-the-cunning-fox-really-wants/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 11:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Lyons</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(by Shaun Hargreaves Heap) News Corporation’s withdrawal of the undertakings, that would have allowed its acquisition of BSkyB before the hackings crisis, looks like a masterstroke. By triggering a referral to the Competition Commission, it takes the heat out of the current ‘fit and proper’ debate and it gives News Corporation a re-match in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=competitionpolicy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9861001&amp;post=599&amp;subd=competitionpolicy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>OFT Sets the Standard for Promoting Competition Law Compliance</title>
		<link>http://competitionpolicy.wordpress.com/2011/06/27/oft-sets-the-standard-for-promoting-competition-law-compliance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 15:08:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andreas Stephan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(by Andreas Stephan) The UK’s Office of Fair Trading should be applauded for making concerted efforts to promote competition law compliance. Today they published new guidance for businesses and directors (amended following a public consultation), as well as simple advice on compliance presented in the form of a ‘Quick Guide’ and ‘Four Step Compliance Wheel’. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=competitionpolicy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9861001&amp;post=591&amp;subd=competitionpolicy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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