Mr. Se?n Murphy:

The GGRs dealt with suppliers who were supplying directly to large retailers and wholesalers. The GGRs were designed to address particular practices, aspects of contracts such as what was prohibited or what was allowed but only with the agreement of the parties. In terms of fair trading, it involved avoiding unilateral variation clauses and late payments. The GGRs predated the UTP directive. The directive is built much more on that. There is some crossover between what was prohibited, but there are more specific aspects to the UTP directive and it covers a much wider area. It deals with many more actors along that chain than the CCPC dealt with. The CCPC was only involved at the end of the chain where the supplier dealt directly with the retailer or wholesaler. This goes back a lot more. On the consumer protection side, we still only deal with business to consumer, B to C, transactions. A lot of what we look at here is business to business, B to B, transactions. By definition, these suppliers are traders so it did not fall within our previous remit.