{"id":66721,"date":"2016-01-22T11:40:28","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T11:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=136b8b5957615c6bbc3b2520465dd0f9"},"modified":"2016-01-22T11:40:28","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T11:40:28","slug":"news-story-cma-publishes-final-cement-price-announcement-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=66721","title":{"rendered":"News story: CMA publishes final cement price announcement order"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Competition and Markets Authority (<abbr title=\"Competition and Markets Authority\">CMA<\/abbr>) first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/cma-consults-on-draft-cement-price-announcement-order\">consulted on the proposed order<\/a> in September 2015 and following changes made as a result of responses received, consulted on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/cma-consults-on-cement-price-announcement-order-and-release-of-undertakings\">an amended version<\/a> in December.  <\/p>\n<p>The order sets out that suppliers of cement and cementitious products in Great Britain (<abbr title=\"Great Britain\">GB<\/abbr>) will be prohibited from sending generic price announcement letters to their customers. Instead, any price announcement letter will have to be specific and relevant to the customer receiving it, including setting out the last unit price paid, the new unit price, and specific details of other charges that apply to the customer. The order is effective from 23 January 2016. <\/p>\n<p>The order results from the Competition Commission\u2019s (<abbr title=\"Competition Commission\">CC<\/abbr>) <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk\/20140402141250\/http:\/www.competition-commission.org.uk\/media-centre\/latest-news\/2014\/Jan\/cc-to-create-new-cement-producer\">investigation<\/a> into the supply or acquisition of aggregates, cement and ready-mix concrete in <abbr title=\"Great Britain\">GB<\/abbr> which required Lafarge Tarmac to sell one of its cement plants and Hanson to sell one of its ground granulated blast furnace slag (<abbr title=\"Ground granulated blast furnace slag\">GGBS<\/abbr>) plants to enhance competition in the cement and <abbr title=\"Ground granulated blast furnace slag\">GGBS<\/abbr> markets. The <abbr title=\"Competition Commission\">CC<\/abbr> also said that it would implement 2 further remedy measures aimed at reducing transparency in the <abbr title=\"Great Britain\">GB<\/abbr> cement markets, comprising: (a) a prohibition on generic cement price announcements; and (b) restrictions on the disclosure and publication of market data.<\/p>\n<p>The order and all other information relating to the investigation can be found on the investigation\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/cma-cases\/aggregates-cement-and-ready-mix-concrete-market-investigation\">case page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CMA has published its final order prohibiting GB cement suppliers from sending generic price announcement letters to their customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66721"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}