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Catalogue description Department of Trade and Industry and successors: Consumer and Competition Policy Division: Registered Files (KZ and FT Series)
| Reference: | NK 66 |
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| Title: | Department of Trade and Industry and successors: Consumer and Competition Policy Division: Registered Files (KZ and FT Series) |
| Description: |
This series consists of the registered files of the Consumer Affairs and Competition Policy Divisions and successors. The files are concerned with UK competition policy and casework on mergers and monopoly, and anti-competitive practices. It also includes files covering legislation and Mergers and Monopolies Commission (MMC) references. The FT file series relates to the development of consumer law, including revisions of the Trades Descritpions Act 1968; the Textile Products (Indications of Fibre Content) (Amendment) Regulations, 1998 and the Resulted in the development of the Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations 2000. Also charts the funding crisis experienced by the National Consumer Council. |
| Date: | 1991-2005 |
| Former reference in its original department: | KZ and FT series |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Department of Trade and Industry, Consumer Affairs and Competition Policy Directorate, 1996-1997 Department of Trade and Industry, Consumer Affairs Directorate, 1998-2007 Department of Trade and Industry, Consumer Affairs Division, 1983-1996 |
| Access conditions: | Records not yet transferred |
| Selection and destruction information: | 3.1.1 The principal policies and actions of the UK central government and English and Welsh Governments. OSP 43 on Competition Case files has also been used to guide selection. |
| Accruals: | This series is accruing. |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
The Consumer Affairs and Competition Policy (CACP) Division was part of the Department of Trade and Industry. The Directorate had two broad objectives: to maintain and develop a framework for relations between suppliers and their customers that was fair; encouraged safety and market efficiency. It also aimed to promote effective and proportionate enforcement of UK and EC competition law and to secure improvements in the relevant competition rules, structures and procedures with a view to developing competitive markets in the UK and Europe. |
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