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Continuing the annual tradition of her predecessors, ACCC Chair Gina Cass-Gottlieb outlined the ACCC’s enforcement priorities for the upcoming year in an address to the Committee for Economic Development of Australia in Sydney on 7 March 2023. A full copy of the speech can be found on the ACCC website. Last year’s address – by outgoing chair Rod Sims – was delivered just two weeks before Ms Cass-Gottlieb assumed the role.
Following almost half a decade of consultation, the New Zealand Government has announced a range of major reforms to NZ’s competition laws, including a relatively controversial proposal to introduce an “effects test” for abuse of dominance and remove various intellectual property exemptions from the Commerce Act 1986.
Pay-for-delay agreements in the pharmaceutical sector have attracted significant scrutiny from competition regulators in the United States and the European Union over the past decade. With the repeal of the intellectual property exemption in the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth) (CCA) last year, these types of agreements are now also at greater risk of regulatory attention in Australia.
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