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Revocation of the UK Beer Orders 1989
 Introduction
 The
Supply of Beer (Tied Estate) Order 1989 (as amended
by The Supply of Beer (Tied Estate) (Amendment) Order 1997) has been
revoked, and The Supply of Beer (Loan Ties, Licensed Premises and
Wholesale Prices) Order 1989 will be revoked shortly.
Effective
timing
The Supply of Beer (Tied Estate)
(Revocation) Order came into effect on 17 January 2003, and The
Supply of Beer (Loan Ties, Licensed Premises and Wholesale Prices)
(Revocation) Order will come into effect on 10 February 2003.
Background
The 1989 Orders were introduced
following the Monopolies and Mergers Commission report, The Supply
of Beer (CM651, ISBN 0 10 1065124), which was published in March
1989.
The report contained a number of
adverse findings related to the vertical links between brewing and
pub retailing, and made recommendations aimed at loosening the tie
between pub retailing and brewing in order to facilitate easier
entry by, and increasing competition between, competing brewers,
wholesalers and pub retailers.
On 14 January 2000, the Director
General of Fair Trading (DGFT) announced a review of the 1989 Beer
Orders, and submitted a report to the Secretary of State on 31 July
2000. This is available on the OFT's
website, www.oft.gov.uk.
Melanie Johnson, Parliamentary
Under-Secretary of State for Competition, Consumers and Markets,
announced on 19 February 2002 that the Beer Orders would be revoked
in their entirety (see Press
Release P/2002/107).
A statutory Notice of the Secretary
of State's intention to lay two draft revocation Orders before
Parliament was published in the Financial Times and the Independent,
and in the London, Belfast and Edinburgh Gazettes, on 17 May 2002
and in the Morning Advertiser on 23 May 2002.
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