Competition (Amendment) Act 2022

Be prepared and up to speed on the significant and wide-ranging new powers of investigation, intervention and enforcement being given to the Irish Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC), under the Competition (Amendment) Act 2022. The main changes will:

for the first time, allow the CCPC to directly impose administrative / civil fines for breaches of competition law
provide a leniency programme for breaches of competition law
provide additional powers of surveillance to the CCPC to investigate certain criminal offences
change the merger control rules, including by granting the CCPC a "call in" power for certain "below threshold" deals to be notified.

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Competition (Amendment) Act 2022

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