Significant and wide-ranging new powers of investigation, intervention and enforcement are proposed to be given to the Irish Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC), under the Competition (Amendment) Act 2022.
Contact usMany hotel sales are now subject to Irish merger control approval due to the change to the turnover thresholds triggering a notification requirement to the CCPC.
Corporate and M&AEvery executive in business inevitably meets competitors. Commercial life probably could not function if one did not meet competitors at some point – for example, at meetings of trade associations, where companies come together to tender for a job that none of them could do individually or when regulators and government agencies call industry representatives together to canvass the views of the in
EU, Competition & ProcurementTonnage tax regimes are increasingly common worldwide. Under such schemes, shipping companies are taxed on the basis of the tonnage of their fleets rather than the actual profits of the companies
EU, Competition & ProcurementIt is very likely that new rules will be put in place for the grocery sector. The Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation has published a draft of the proposed statutory instrument which will set out the rules. The Minister has asked for comments on the draft by the end of February. This A&L Goodbody client bulletin sets out key points of the proposed statutory instrument.
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