Peter Walsh and Associates Limited

We have warned Peter Walsh and Associates Limited that they likely breached section 27 via 30 of the Commerce Act 1986 by entering into two anti-competitive agreements to set fees at livestock saleyards. The fees arose in connection with the National Animal Identification and Tracing Act 2012. The agreements were: agents would charge farmers an RFID administration fee of $1.50 per head of cattle to register saleyard based cattle movements; and saleyards would increase existing yard fees by $1.50 per head of cattle.