Ms Isolde Goggin:

A company or individual can only be taken to court if such practices have the object or effect of preventing, restricting or distorting competition. That is one of the limitations in the Act. As already stated, the other limitation is evidential. Actually it is not so much a limitation of the Act, rather it is the way in which we do business here which leads to cases ending up before the courts. If one does not have the evidence to go to court, one is limited in terms of other possible options. The National Consumer Agency has a broader range of sanctions at its disposal than is available under competition law. When it comes to competition law, it is court or nothing. There are other naming-and-shaming sanctions which can be imposed elsewhere.