Updates

The ACCC proposes to grant authorisation to enable Virgin Australia and Alliance Airlines to coordinate their operations in relation to the provision of services on 41 regional routes and two short-haul international routes.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (the ACCC) has granted conditional interim authorisation so that 13 coal mining or coal project development companies (the Applicants) can commence collective negotiation and potentially engage in collective arbitration with Dalrymple Bay Infrastructure Management Pty Ltd on the terms and conditions of access to the Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal coal handling service, while the ACCC considers the Applicants' application for authorisation.

The ACCC proposes to grant authorisation to enable Gippsland Waste and Resource Recovery and a group of six Councils in Gippsland, Victoria (the Applicants) to jointly procure organic waste processing services until 1 July 2042. The six Gippsland Councils are: Bass Coast Shire Council, Baw Baw Shire Council, East Gippsland Shire Council, Latrobe City Council, South Gippsland Shire Council and Wellington Shire Council.

The ACCC has issued a draft determination proposing to grant authorisation to enable Screen Producers Australia (SPA) and its members to collectively negotiate model terms of engagement with the Australian Writers' Guild (AWG), Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA), and the Australian Directors' Guild (ADG) and the members of these organisations.

The ACCC has granted authorisation to enable Metropolitan Waste and Resource Recovery and a group of thirteen Councils in metropolitan Melbourne to jointly procure organic waste processing services through the South Eastern Organics Group. Authorisation is proposed to run until 10 July 2032.

The ACCC proposes to grant re-authorisation to enable the South Australian Oyster Growers Association (SAOGA) and the South Australian Oyster Research Council (SAORC) to continue to charge a levy on purchases of juvenile oysters (spat) by oyster growers. The levy is used to fund research and development activities.

The ACCC has granted conditional interim authorisation to enable businesses that acquire unprocessed timber logs from the South Australian Forestry Corporation (ForestrySA) to form a collective bargaining group to negotiate the terms and conditions (other than pricing) of supply agreements for logs from the Mount Lofty Reserve in South Australia.

The ACCC has not objected to the notification lodged by the Tasmanian Farmers and Graziers Association (TFGA) to enable itself, members of the TFGA Pyrethrum Committee and current and future Tasmanian pyrethrum growers to collectively negotiate the terms and conditions (including price) for the supply of pyrethrum to Botanical Resources Australia (BRA).

The ACCC has issued its final determination revoking authorisations A91470 and A91471 and granting authorisation AA1000526 in substitution to enable Qantas and China Eastern Airlines to give effect to an extended Joint Coordination Agreement under which the airlines will continue to coordinate their operations between Australia and mainland China.

The ACCC has issued a draft determination proposing to grant authorisation to enable Metropolitan Waste and Resource Recovery and a group of thirteen Councils in metropolitan Melbourne to jointly procure organic waste processing services through the South Eastern Organics Group. Authorisation is proposed to run until 10 July 2032.