Ms Christine Tacon:

There were loads of unfair trading practices in the UK. Every single line of the code came from evidence found by the Competition Commission. On every one of those, I have had to work with retailers to get them to conform. That has made a difference. Even if one does not include the pricing, it will make a difference. As soon as one starts to include pricing, one makes one's job really difficult. It may make it a much more difficult thing to achieve. I would almost suggest going for the unfair trading practices, get them done and then consider whether there is anything that can be done on pricing. There is either a free market, and retailers can play suppliers against each other, which is clearly what they do because somebody is actually agreeing these prices, or they say there is which is what is pushing the prices down. It is really hard if one wishes to effect that at the same time.