Competition Bill 2001
Public bill · Government · Presented
Consolidates and modernises Ireland’s competition and merger laws, prohibiting anti-competitive agreements, price-fixing, market-sharing, bid-rigging and abuses of market power. It gives the Competition Authority responsibility for clearing larger mergers, with special safeguards for media ownership, and strengthens its investigation powers, court remedies and penalties—including up to five years’ imprisonment for the most serious offences.
Formal long title
Bill entitled an Act to make new provision, by analogy with Articles 81 and 82 of the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in the interests of the common good, for the prohibition of activities which prevent, restrict or distort competition in trade in the State or which constitute an abuse of a dominant position in such trade, to complement the powers available to the Commission of the European Communities with regard to the enforcement of the said Articles 81 and 82, to make new provision, in the interests of the common good, for the control of certain mergers or acquisitions, to continue in being the Competition Authority and make new provision about its functions, to repeal the Competition Acts, 1991 and 1996, the Mergers and Takeovers (Control) Acts, 1978 to 1996, and certain other enactments, and to provide for related matters
Last updated 12 April 2018
- Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Primary
- First StageSeanad
- Second StageSeanad
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- Report StageSeanad
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- Second StageDáil
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- Competition Bill, 2001 [ Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil ] : Report and Final Stages. Seanad
- Competition Bill, 2001 [ Seanad ] : Motion. Dáil
- Competition Bill, 2001 [ Seanad ] : Report and Final Stages. Dáil
- Competition Bill, 2001 [ Seanad ] : Second Stage (Resumed). Dáil
- Competition Bill, 2001 [ Seanad ] : Referral to Select Committee. Dáil
- Competition Bill, 2001 [ Seanad ] : Second Stage. Dáil
- Competition Bill, 2001: Committee Stage. Seanad
- Competition Bill, 2001: Report and Final Stages. Seanad
- Competition Bill, 2001: Order for Second Stage. Seanad
- Competition Bill, 2001: Second Stage. Seanad
- Competition Bill, 2001: Second Stage (Resumed). Seanad