Agency eyes phone taps in battle against white collar crime

Electronic surveillance vital in battle against corrosive crime, says commission chief

Hard Brexit could cost Irish households €1,400 a year in higher prices

Trade barriers would push up retail prices, ESRI finds

Consumer watchdog highlights risks of PCP car finance deals

Finance plans risk ‘significant consumer detriment’, protection body warns

Competition regulator examined more than 70 deals in 2017

Watchdog was notified of 72 deals involving businesses with combined sales of €56bn

Agencies blasted for failing to stop banks ‘ripping off’ tracker customers

Oireachtas Finance Committee accuses competition agency of being afraid of banks

Motor dealer fined €500 for car clocking

Businessman convicted of falsifying mileage ordered to pay €8,000 compensation

Customer protection agency launches car purchase study

Commission to examine experiences of consumers who opt for ‘complex’ PCP deals

Kantar Media must sell part of Irish rival as condition of takeover

CCPC rules takeover of Newsaccess can go ahead if Kantar sells part of company

Background: What is the EC’s Competition Directorate?

Agency is considered to be one of world’s most sophisticated antitrust enforcers

Repossessions to increase fivefold, warns master of High Court

Sell-off to vulture funds will push up evictions, costing taxpayers millions

Collusion put floor under bids for carpeting contracts

Long road to first bid-rigging conviction ends with suspended sentence and ‘modest’ fines

Car dealers investigated over clocked, crashed vehicles

Consumers who have been misled about a car are encouraged to contact the CCPC

Major retailers fined over breaches of consumer legislation

Consumer regulator took 40 enforcement actions against 33 traders in 2016

Main ticket sellers face investigation after recent controversy

Competition watchdog will inquire into ‘suspected breaches of law’

Landlord body rebuked for telling members to introduce charges

Competition law expressly forbids trade associations co-ordinating business conduct

Motor insurers to be quizzed on suspected competition breaches

Commission checking if insurers have signalled premiums rises to each other

Greyhound to buy Pandagreen assets as merger proceeds

Deal between Panda and Greenstar gets green light

Consumer commission to focus on cartels and car clocking

Bid rigging and second-hand motor sector to be viewed as area of priority over next year

Consumer watchdog tackled 62 businesses in 2015

Competition protection commission fined 33 traders for breaches of price-display laws

Consumer body warns over minimum pricing

Publication of recommended minimum rates meant consumers were not in position to benefit from normal price competition

Brown Thomas ordered to take hoverboards off its shelves

Retailers told to stop selling items due to inability to prove safety certification

Cancel Christmas? Hoverboards blocked at Dublin Port

Importation of 1,400 Smart Balance Wheels at Dublin Port suspended over safety fears

Hotel prices could fall after website taken to task by watchdog

Investigation found some aspects of Booking.com’s arrangements restricted price competition

Cliff Taylor: Waiting – and waiting – for new legal services regulator

‘The troika left without beating the lawyers. What odds on the new legal services authority being up and running before polling day?’

Vodafone ordered to tell customers how to exit contracts

Those who signed up online over last year can now cancel contracts penalty free

Action taken against Eircom, Meteor, Three and UPC

Telcos deemed noncompliant over consumer protections

GPs warned over sharing intentions on under-six contract

Competition commission fears GP body encouraging boycott of proposed new scheme

Irish Cement raided in competition investigation

Inquiry focuses on charge of abusing a dominant position

Banks feel heat as focus on standard variable interest rates intensifies

Anger grows at interest rates charged by Irish lending institutions

Investigating mortgage rates not ‘best use’ of resources, consumer body tells MEP

Commission rejects Brian Hayes’s call to investigate ‘excessive’ variable mortgage rates

Watchdog extends protection for cartel whistleblowers

Competition and Consumer Protection Commission to extend immunity programme

Government wants more SMEs to tender as groups

New guide gives advice on rules surrounding competition law and tendering process

Competition Bill paves way for consumer watchdog

Public interest of media mergers to be judged by Minister for Communications

Competitiveness Council calls for introduction of site-value tax

Labour market flexibility, cost reductions and a sustainable construction sector essential to deliver jobs and economic growth - NCC

‘Fear of retribution’ stops complaints about ‘hello money’

Small producers may be unwilling to complain of coerced payments, the chairwoman of the Competition Authority has said

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