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<blockquote data-quote="Grass And Grain" data-source="post: 7368657" data-attributes="member: 23184"><p>Yes, we need to look at this.</p><p></p><p>From CMA...</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>Things you should not do</strong></span></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">prevent members from using different contractual conditions from any association developed standard conditions if they wish to do so</li> </ul><p>So AIC/UFAS are saying that UK grain has to be RT assured to becused in a UFAS approved mill. Is this, therefore, contrary to the above law.</p><p></p><p>A further competition law is that businesses are not allowed to apply 'dissimilar trading conditions to similar trasactions'. Therefore, one must ask ourselves if it's legal for a mill to stipulate UK grain is assured at the farm level, whilst not stipulating it for imported grains.</p><p></p><p>This all depends on a company having a dominant market position (over 40% of a market).</p><p></p><p>Has one of the big rape crushers got over 40% of thre UK market? Also applies if smaller companies are universally all operating under the same terms of a trade association. So does this apply to the way the rules that the mills are operating under (i.e. all of them are stipulating that UK grain must be ACCS/SQC).</p><p></p><p>I'm intending to get my head around this this week.</p><p></p><p>We can refer this to the CMA. It costs nothing, and they investigate if they think there is a case to answer. Companies can be fined up to 10% of global turnover, so that is a HUGE risk for a global company.</p><p></p><p>What does everyone think?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Grass And Grain, post: 7368657, member: 23184"] Yes, we need to look at this. From CMA... [SIZE=6][B]Things you should not do[/B][/SIZE] [LIST] [*]prevent members from using different contractual conditions from any association developed standard conditions if they wish to do so [/LIST] So AIC/UFAS are saying that UK grain has to be RT assured to becused in a UFAS approved mill. Is this, therefore, contrary to the above law. A further competition law is that businesses are not allowed to apply 'dissimilar trading conditions to similar trasactions'. Therefore, one must ask ourselves if it's legal for a mill to stipulate UK grain is assured at the farm level, whilst not stipulating it for imported grains. This all depends on a company having a dominant market position (over 40% of a market). Has one of the big rape crushers got over 40% of thre UK market? Also applies if smaller companies are universally all operating under the same terms of a trade association. So does this apply to the way the rules that the mills are operating under (i.e. all of them are stipulating that UK grain must be ACCS/SQC). I'm intending to get my head around this this week. We can refer this to the CMA. It costs nothing, and they investigate if they think there is a case to answer. Companies can be fined up to 10% of global turnover, so that is a HUGE risk for a global company. What does everyone think? [/QUOTE]
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