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• Competition and Consumer Amendment (Australian Country of Origin Food Labelling) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 Feb 2015 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  MILNE, Sen Christine
  XENOPHON, Sen Nick 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  to: create specific requirements for country of origin labelling for food; extend country of origin labelling to all packaged and unpackaged food for retail sale; restrict the range of labelling to three kinds of claim; and create penalties and defences; and

  Imported Food Control Act 1992

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Competition and Consumer Amendment (Australian Energy Regulator Separation) Bill 2024

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  20 Nov 2024 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  to separate the Australian Energy Regulator (AER) from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and establish the AER as a non-corporate Commonwealth entity. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Competition and Consumer Amendment (Australian Energy Regulator Separation) Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 Jul 2025 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  to separate the Australian Energy Regulator (AER) from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and establish the AER as a non-corporate Commonwealth entity. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Competition and Consumer Amendment (Australian Food Labelling) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  17 Sep 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  BANDT, Adam, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  to: create specific requirements for country of origin labelling for food; provide that the labelling is based on the ingoing weight of the ingredients and components; and create penalties and defences; and

  Imported Food Control Act 1992

  to make a consequential amendment. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Competition and Consumer Amendment (Australian Food Labelling) Bill 2012 (No. 2)

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  17 Sep 2012 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  MILNE, Sen Christine 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  to: create specific requirements for country of origin labelling for food; provide that the labelling is based on the ingoing weight of the ingredients and components; and create penalties and defences; and

  Imported Food Control Act 1992

  to make a consequential amendment. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Competition and Consumer Amendment (Competition Policy Review) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  30 Mar 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  to: clarify that ‘competition’ includes competition from goods and services that are capable of importation, in addition to those actually imported; confine the application of cartel conduct provisions to conduct affecting competition in Australian markets; change the scope of the joint venture exceptions; remove provisions relating to the anti-competitive disclosure of pricing and other information (known as price signalling); prohibit a corporation from engaging in a concerted practice that has the purpose, effect or likely effect of substantially lessening competition; remove the separate prohibition on exclusionary provisions; define ‘contract’ and ‘party’ to include covenants; increase the maximum penalty applying to breaches of the secondary boycott provisions; prohibit third line forcing only where it has the purpose, effect or likely effect of substantially lessening competition; enable a corporation or person to notify the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) of resale price maintenance conduct, as an alternative to seeking authorisation from the commission for such conduct; provide an exemption from the resale price maintenance prohibition for conduct between related bodies corporate; consolidate authorisation provisions, including those relating to mergers, into a single authorisation process; grant the ACCC with ‘class exemption’ and ‘stop notice’ powers; provide for reviews by the Australian Competition Tribunal of merger authorisation determinations by the ACCC; enable a party bringing certain proceedings to rely on both admissions of fact and finding of fact made in certain other proceedings; extend the ACCC’s power to obtain information, documents and evidence in relation to investigations of alleged contraventions or court enforceable undertakings and merger authorisation determinations, and introduce a ‘reasonable search’ defence in relation to the failure or refusal to comply with a notice to produce such documents; implement recommendations made by the Productivity Commission in relation to the National Access Regime; streamline administration of the Act, particularly in relation to requirements of the Australian Consumer Law; and make consequential amendments; and

  Radiocommunications Act 1992

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Competition and Consumer Amendment (Continuing ACCC Monitoring of Domestic Airline Competition) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 Sep 2023 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  SMITH, Sen Dean
  MCKENZIE, Sen Bridget 

  Summary

  The bill: amends the

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  to require the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to continue its price monitoring of domestic air passenger transport services and related goods and services for 3 years; and repeals the

  Competition and Consumer (Price Monitoring—Domestic Air Passenger Transport) Direction 2020

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Competition and Consumer Amendment (Country of Origin) Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  01 Sep 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Industry, Innovation and Science 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  to clarify the country of origin labelling requirements by amending the definition of substantial transformation as it applies to the safe harbour provisions and removing the 50 per cent production cost test. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Competition and Consumer Amendment (Country of Origin) Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 May 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Industry, Innovation and Science 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  to clarify the country of origin labelling requirements by amending the definition of substantial transformation as it applies to the safe harbour provisions and removing the 50 per cent production cost test. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Competition and Consumer Amendment (Deregulatory and Other Measures) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Mar 2015 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  to: remove the requirement for reporting a food related death, serious injury or illness to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC); remove the requirement for litigants to obtain ministerial consent to bring an action for a breach of the Act that takes place overseas; enable consumers to seek redress in state and territory courts and tribunals for breaches of the Act; remove the requirement for the ACCC to maintain a register of certain records when they hold conferences for product safety bans; enable the ACCC to share certain notices it receives with specified agencies to protect public safety; clarify the operation of the cooling-off period for unsolicited consumer agreements; permit the ACCC to seek a court order directing a person to comply with a notice to obtain information, documents and evidence; and make technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum