Promoting Competition in Ireland
In addition to its law enforcement and merger regulation functions, the Competition Authority also has a duty to promote competition in the economy in a number of ways:
- Identifying and commenting on the effects on competition of existing laws or administrative practices;
- Advising the Government, its Ministers and agencies, about the implications for competition of proposed legislation or regulation;
- Studying and publicising how competition operates in the economy; andÂ
- Advising and informing the public & public authorities, about competition issues generally.