Mr Brown will also ruffle business feathers with his plans to toughen-up competition law.
Prior to 1998, company directors caught breaking competition law faced nothing worse than a reprimand.
The penalty for breaching competition law is a fine of up to 10% of revenue.
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The Health and Social Care Bill does not extend the application of EU competition law.
The Enterprise Bill would provide a one-stop shop for business to help them understand and comply with competition law.
"We have made changes to ensure that we're in compliance with our competition law obligations, " said Microsoft lawyer Brad Smith.
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The opinion suggests that minimum pricing is a disproportionate way to tackle such concerns and therefore may not be exempt from competition law.
The danger that cheap Chinese capital might undermine rivals can be better dealt with by beefing up competition law than by keeping investment out.
Ryanair said the decision was "clearly a political one" to meet the interests of the Irish government and was not based on competition law.
"Littlewoods' own investigation has clearly established that its employees have not been involved in any infringement of competition law, " the company said in a statement.
Some Telmex customers have been told that their lines will work properly only if they use Telmex handsets, which is illegal under the competition law.
The firms will now be asked to respond to its allegations, before the OFT makes a decision on whether or not competition law has been infringed.
He complains that they didn't know that competition law now applied to them, that nobody told them so, and that they were never consulted about the new law.
In October, Anne Milton, public health minister for England, told MPs that a minimum price per unit could be open to legal challenges relating to European competition law.
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) and Ofcom (the consumer watchdog and media regulator) are in a somewhat delicate position as they already approved the deal along competition law lines.
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Ministers insist they are acting in accordance with both UK, Scottish and European legislation and that measures which relate to public health, social problems and crime are exempt from competition law.
In the Scottish Parliament, Labour, the Tories and Liberal Democrats said they would vote down minimum pricing, saying it might contravene European competition law and would fail to target certain "problem drinks".
If proven, the allegations would be an infringement on the part of all the parties of competition law and on the part of GlaxoSmithKline an abuse of its dominant place in the market.
The government has sold Olympic Airways, a subsidy-thirsty airline, and a competition law is going through parliament that will give antitrust authorities more power to challenge and break up big companies that can set prices.
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This model recognises the synergies between the sector regulators but takes account of the difference between the regulatory powers of these organisations and the competition law powers of the OFT and the Competition Commission.
Courts have applied the various facets of unfair competition law to protect fictional characters and, similar to trademark law, prevent the wrongful use of fictional characters in connection with goods and services of third parties.
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Opening an opposition-led debate on 16 March 2011, shadow health secretary John Healey said allowing private firms to provide services on the NHS will mean that commissioning contracts will be subject to EU competition law.
In response to which, Mr Swinney says that Scotland can have a stable currency - plus other economic levers such as tax, spending, borrowing, competition law, employment policy and immigration with which to boost Scotland's distinct interests.
Karel Van Miert, a Belgian who is responsible for antitrust policy, has completed a white paper on reforms to the working of competition law, and hopes to rule on a weighty list of mergers before his term is up.
It said that changes in the law and competition among insurers had pushed down prices.
Unfair competition is prohibited under common law, state statutes, and the U.S. Trademark Act.
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