Guidelines for Business
Our guidance helps businesses to understand their obligations under law and promotes a culture of compliance
Resale price maintenance: what you need to know
Date: 30/06/2021
Resale price maintenance (RPM) involves an agreement between a supplier and a reseller, usually a retailer, preventing the reseller from setting its own prices for goods or services.
Platform to Business (P2B) Regulation
Date: 17/11/2020
The CCPC is responsible for monitoring compliance with and enforcement of the Platform to Business Regulations. These rules create a fair business environment for smaller businesses and traders on online platforms. Find out more about the P2B Regulations.
Price fixing: What you need to know
Date: 25/08/2020
A key element of competition is price. It is essential that businesses set their prices independently. Price fixing is a serious form of anti-competitive …
CCPC Guidance for Business re COVID-19 Face Masks
Date: 18/05/2020
This guidance will be helpful to any business who intends to produce or distribute Barrier Masks for consumer use. There are different types of …
Gift vouchers: What you need to know
Date: 02/12/2019
The Consumer Protection (Gift Vouchers) Act 2019 came into effect in December 2019 and brought changes that your business needs to be aware of
Distributor and Retailers Product Safety Legislation Guide: Electrical Chargers
Date: 05/09/2019
As a distributor or retailer placing or making electrical chargers available on the market in Ireland, you are legally required to comply with the …
Brexit and your business
Date: 25/02/2019
The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) has responsibility for enforcing competition and consumer protection law, as well as a specific remit in relation …
Geo-blocking: What you need to know
Date: 10/12/2018
Geo-blocking refers to practices used by online traders to restrict online cross-border sales based on nationality, residence or place of establishment. Geo-blocking practices include: …
Bid-rigging: What you need to know
Date: 01/10/2018
This guide is intended to help you spot some tell-tale signs of bid-rigging or collusive tendering, as well as practical advice on what you can do to prevent bid-rigging and what to do if you suspect that it has happened.
Textile Labelling Regulations
Date: 11/05/2016
The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) is responsible for enforcing the legislation in respect of textile labelling i.e. European Union (Textile Fibre Names and Related Labelling and Marking of the Fibre Composition of Textile Products) Regulations 2012 [S.I. No. 142 of 2012].
