What did CAMRA want the OFT to do?
In our super-complaint we asked the OFT to conduct a full market study to assess the scale of consumer detriment caused by the operation of the beer tie by the large pub companies. Following this, we requested that the OFT agreed legally binding undertakings with the large pub companies to make their beer tie arrangements more competitive. We suggested the following as suitable remedies: • To encourage tying pub companies to be competitive on tied beer prices and to address access to market for small brewers, CAMRA proposed a guest beer right to allow one draught real ale to be purchased outside the tie • Improvements to the system of calculating pub rents especially for tied pubs • A public information campaign on the costs and benefits of pub-owning company “tied” lease agreements • A end to the use of restrictive covenants and a commitment that existing covenants in the pub market will not be enforced • When issuing new leases of five years or longer the large pub-owning companies s
Related Questions
- When the Cabinet Secretary for Justice asks for its advice, can the OFT simply re-issue its response to the super-complaint, this time as advice?
- Why can CAMRA simply issue a further super-complaint to the Office of Fair Trading (OFT)?
- Has the OFT published guidelines for bodies making a super-complaint?
