Commerce Commission - Latest News [Page 84]
Statutory review of Fonterra’s milk price manual
Friday, 14 December 2012, 9:38 am | Commerce Commission
The Commerce Commission has today released a final report on its first statutory review of Fonterra’s milk price manual. The manual determines how Fonterra calculates the farm gate milk price, which is the price paid by Fonterra to dairy farmers for ... More >>
Don't Promise What You Can't Deliver Says Commission
Monday, 10 December 2012, 10:15 am | Commerce Commission
The Commerce Commission is reminding retailers of their responsibilities under the Fair Trading Act as the Christmas shopping season gathers pace. More >>
Hamilton Radiology seeks clearance to acquire Medimaging
Monday, 3 December 2012, 9:22 am | Commerce Commission
The Commerce Commission has received an application from Hamilton Radiology Limited. The application relates to the formation of a joint venture between Hamilton Radiology, Midland MRI and Medimaging. The joint venture will acquire the radiology assets of ... More >>
Proposed wholesale price for broadband bitstream service
Monday, 3 December 2012, 9:08 am | Commerce Commission
The Commerce Commission has today released its draft decision on a new cost-based price for Chorus’ unbundled bitstream access (UBA) service. More >>
New pricing limits for electricity distribution businesses
Friday, 30 November 2012, 10:21 am | Commerce Commission
The Commerce Commission has today released its final decision to reset the default price-quality paths for 16 electricity distributors. Two of the distributors will have to reduce their prices, while the remainder will be able to increase their prices ... More >>
Commission launches new guidelines over enforcement response
Friday, 23 November 2012, 10:45 am | Commerce Commission
The Commerce Commission has today launched new guidelines to help New Zealanders understand more about how the Commission’s Competition Branch enforces its consumer and competition legislation. More >>
Delay To Announcement On Pricing For Chorus’ Phone Lines
Monday, 19 November 2012, 3:44 pm | Commerce Commission
The Commerce Commission today announced a short delay to the final decision on the price Chorus can charge for its copper lines to now coincide with the draft decision on broadband access pricing. More >>
Com Com welcomes Supreme Court ruling on input methodologies
Thursday, 15 November 2012, 4:06 pm | Commerce Commission
The Commerce Commission welcomes a Supreme Court decision today confirming that the Commission is not required to determine a starting price input methodology for electricity distribution and gas pipeline services. This confirms the decision by the Court of ... More >>
Draft report on Wellington International Airport
Friday, 2 November 2012, 11:27 am | Commerce Commission
The Commerce Commission has today released a draft of a report to the Ministers of Commerce and Transport on how well information disclosure regulation is promoting the purpose of that regulation for Wellington International Airport. More >>
Commerce Commission Will Monitor Fixed-To-Mobile Prices
Thursday, 1 November 2012, 9:59 am | Commerce Commission
The Telecommunications Commissioner today announced that the Commission will extend its monitoring of the telecommunications market to include fixed-to-mobile pricing. More >>
Transpower’s maximum allowable revenues adjusted
Wednesday, 31 October 2012, 12:41 pm | Commerce Commission
The Commerce Commission has completed its review of Transpower’s performance in 2011/12 against prices set in the Individual price-quality path and has adjusted Transpower’s maximum allowable revenue (MAR) for the 2013/14 and 2014/15 years. More >>
Commission clears Vodafone’s purchase of TelstraClear
Tuesday, 30 October 2012, 9:10 am | Commerce Commission
In assessing the clearance application, the Commission looked at the potential impact of the purchase in a number of markets. These include the provision of fixed line calling and broadband services to residential, as well as business customers, with ... More >>
Preliminary issues for Hirepool/Hirequip application
Monday, 29 October 2012, 12:55 pm | Commerce Commission
The Commerce Commission has published a statement of preliminary issues relating to an application from Bligh Finance Limited (owner of the Hirepool rental business) seeking clearance to acquire the business of Hire Equipment Group Limited. More >>
Vector seeks to acquire Contact’s gas metering business
Thursday, 25 October 2012, 5:00 pm | Commerce Commission
The Commission has received an application from Vector Limited seeking clearance to acquire some or all of the shares or assets of Contact Energy Limited’s natural gas metering business. More >>
Proposal: Default PriceQuality Paths For Gas Services
Wednesday, 24 October 2012, 11:10 am | Commerce Commission
Media Release Issued 24 October 2012 Release No. 34 Commerce Commission Proposes Default PriceQuality Paths For Gas Pipeline Services The Commerce Commission has today released its revised draft decision proposing the first default price-quality ... More >>
First statutory review of Fonterra’s milk price manual
Friday, 19 October 2012, 3:59 pm | Commerce Commission
The Commerce Commission has today released a draft report on its first statutory review of Fonterra’s milk price manual. The manual determines how Fonterra calculates the farm gate milk price, which is the price paid by Fonterra to dairy farmers for ... More >>
Competition issues in Christchurch rebuild highlighted
Friday, 19 October 2012, 11:08 am | Commerce Commission
The Commerce Commission plans to meet with key people involved in the Christchurch rebuild to ensure competition law is not bent or broken during the rebuilding of the city. More >>
Commerce Commission outlines approach to telco levy
Friday, 19 October 2012, 9:12 am | Commerce Commission
The Commerce Commission today released a further paper on how it plans to set the Telecommunications Development Levy that will be paid by telecommunications companies to the government. More >>
Retailers asked for feedback on credit card rule changes
Thursday, 18 October 2012, 12:00 pm | Commerce Commission
The Commerce Commission is undertaking some analysis of the impacts of an innovative settlement the Commission reached in 2009 with banks and credit card companies. More >>
Hirepool Seeks Clearance To Acquire Hirequip
Wednesday, 17 October 2012, 10:54 am | Commerce Commission
The Commerce Commission has received an application from Bligh Finance Limited, owner of the Hirepool rental business, seeking clearance to acquire the business of Hire Equipment Group Limited (Hirequip). More >>
