Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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277. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the status of progress to date by the CCPC regarding enforcement of the grocery goods regulations and monitoring compliance; the number of investigations undertaken in response to complaints under the grocery goods regulations; the number of enforcement actions made; the number of cases which concluded with fines issued; the amount in euro of fines issued; and the number of collected and uncollected fines, in tabular form. [53641/17]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) is the statutory independent body responsible for the enforcement of domestic and EU competition and consumer protection law in the State. Section 9 (5) of the Competition and Consumer Protection Act 2014 provides that the CCPC is independent in the performance of its functions. I, as the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation, have no direct function in such matters.

The Consumer Protection Act 2007 (Grocery Goods Undertakings) Regulations 2016 entered into force on 30 April 2016.

Under Section 18(1) of the Regulations, a relevant grocery goods undertaking (RGGU) is required to submit an annual compliance report in respect of its obligations under the Regulations for the previous 12 months to the CCPC by 31 March each year. The first annual compliance reports covering the period from 30^thApril 2016 to 31^stDecember 2016 were due on 31^stMarch 2017. I am informed that annual compliance reports were received from all undertakings that have notified the CCPC of their status as an RGGU under the Regulations. The next compliance reports which cover the period from 1 January 2017 to 31 December 2017 will be due for submission to the CCPC on 31 March 2018.

The enforcement information sought by the Deputy is set out in the table.