Competition in “Lockdown” After the Attack of COVID-19 in Australia
Jessica Apel and Barbora Jedlickova
Competition Policy International News
On February 25, 2020, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (“ACCC”) set its enforcement priorities for the year, as per usual, without any suspicion that the world was about to change with the COVID-19 outbreak and that, with this change, competition and the enforcement of its law would take a reverse path. Rather than “just” protecting competition, the current policy seeks to preserve businesses in order to introduce healthy competition once the outbreak is over. …