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recent bookmarks from jmLarge breweries ‘pay publicans not to stock smaller companies’ beer, cider’2018-07-05T08:49:27+00:00
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/oireachtas/large-breweries-pay-publicans-not-to-stock-smaller-companies-beer-cider-1.3553407?mode=amp
jmHe said a pub in Cork he was in recently had 21 taps of which 19 were from one brewing company and that smaller breweries tried to get some of that business. Mr Kelly claimed similar practices were occurring in pubs across all counties and that the statutory body that deals with anti-competitive practices, the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC), had received a number of complaints but did not have the resources to deal with the issue.
However, Minister of State Pat Breen said “after a robust examination” the CCPC found it did not have grounds to suspect a breach of the law.
Mr Kelly said that “the dogs in the street know what is happening here” and that the Minister’s response was insulting to the industry. He said the CCPC would need large resources to investigate the issue and “large amounts of cash and resources are being used, and these practices are happening in large pubs in all cities and towns in Ireland”.
]]>ireland brewing beer pubs ccpc anti-competitive business alan-kelly dailhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:526974969ae9/Irish parliament pressing ahead with increased access to retained telecoms data2014-07-04T08:46:03+00:00
http://www.fplogue.com/irish-parliament-pressing-ahead-with-broadening-access-to-retained-telecoms-data/
jmWhile much of the new bill is concerned with the dissolution of the Competition Authority and the National Consumer Agency and the formation of a new merged Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) the new bill also proposed to extend the powers of the new CCPC to help it investigate serious anticompetitive behaviour.
Strikingly the new bill proposes to give members of the CCPC the power to access data retained under the Communications (Retention of Data) Act 2011. As readers will recall this act implements Directive 2006/24/EC which obliges telecommunications companies to archive traffic and location data for a period of up to two years to facilitate the investigation of serious crime.
Ireland chose to implement the maximum two year retention period and provided access to An Garda Siochana, The Defence Forces and the Revenue Commissioners. The current reform of Irish competition law now proposes to extend data access powers to the members of the CCPC for the purposes of investigating cartel offences.
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