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Australia highlights support for ongoing APEC meeting

... investment, including tariffs, investment, standards and conformance, customs procedures, intellectual property rights, competition policy, deregulation, government procurement and business disability. Australia's IAP for 2003 provides a comprehensive ...

ACCC issues proposed industry codes of conduct for public comment

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) issued a discussion paper and draft guidelines for developing and endorsing effective industry codes of conduct. "In August, the ACCC announced plans to introduce a system of endorsement of effective ...

APEC will seek to exorcise the failures of WTO Cancun

... to strengthen the market framework in which business operates, addressing issues of good governance, transparency, competition policy, deregulation and economic reform, legal infrastructure and IPR protection," said Mr Militanchinda. The third category ...

Consumer watchdog signals two-year ban on genetic testing

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2003
... it would approve a two-year ban on life insurance companies asking clients to have genetic testing. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) said it wanted to give insurers and the government time to absorb the recommendations of an ...

Lloyds TSB announces new strategy today

AAP  |  MONDAY, 6 OCT 2003
... serious contender to buy NBNZ, New Zealand's largest bank, and recently secured regulatory approval from the nation's competition watchdog. "Analysts believe that there is a wide divergence between the asking price for NBNZ of up to $6 billion and ANZ's ...

ANZ Bank gets thumbs down from NZ customers again

... by the provincial-based Taranaki Savings Bank (TSB), which won 95 per cent approval from its customers. New Zealand competition watchdog Commerce Commission has approved an application by the ANZ Bank to buy the National Bank from Lloyds TSB which has ...

ACCC initiates legal proceedings against get-rich-quick seminar

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2003
The competition watchdog said today it had started legal proceedings against get-rich-quick seminar leader Henry Kaye and the National Investment Institute Ltd (NII). The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has alleged Mr Kaye and ...

ANZ still has some hurdles to jump in NBNZ aquisition

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2003
... purchase. The NZ Commerce Commission said it is satisfied that the proposed acquisition would not substantially lessen competition in the market because of competition from other major banks. "While ANZ is continuing to investigate the strategic opportunity ...

NZCC delays Qantas-Air New Zealand decision to October 24

... information" it had received at a conference about the alliance in late August. The delay comes after the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) ruled against the proposed alliance on September 9. Under the proposal, Qantas would take ...

Focus on China-US bilateral trade in upcoming Dubai summit: ICAP

... economists at ICAP said in their Weekly Insights report released today. ICAP cited the fact that there will be a bit of competition about who has the largest budget deficit and, while there will be the inevitable comments that the deficits will have ...