Advocacy Activities

On 14 December 2018, the Motor Trades Association of Australia (MTAA) welcomed the final report of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s (ACCC) 18 month Market Study into New Car Retailing and urged industry and Government to now get on with adopting the recommendations and actions.

To assist independent automobile dealers to understand the proposed changes outlined in the ACCC report, MTAA provided a fact sheet for dealers (in additional to one for independent repairers) which included an overview of the report, highlights key points of the report for industry and outlines what MTAA’s next steps are in addressing a wide range of issues including franchising arrangements and the development of a mandatory scheme for car manufacturers to share technical repair information with independent repairers on commercially fair and reasonable terms.

To access the fact sheet for dealers please use the following link  Download .pdf

On 14 December 2018, the Motor Trades Association of Australia (MTAA) welcomed the final report of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s (ACCC) 18 month Market Study into New Car Retailing and urged industry and Government to now get on with adopting the recommendations and actions.

To assist independent automobile repairers to understand the proposed changes outlined in the ACCC report, MTAA provided industry with a fact sheet which included an overview of the report, highlights key points of the report for industry and outlines what MTAA’s next steps are for advocating for a mandatory scheme to be introduced for car manufacturers to share technical repair information with independent repairers on commercially fair and reasonable terms.

To access the fact sheet for independent mechanical repairers please use the following link   Download .pdf

On 14 December 2017, the Motor Trades Association of Australia (MTAA) welcomed the final report of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s (ACCC) 18 month Market Study into New Car Retailing and urged industry and government to now get on with adopting the recommendations and actions.

MTAA and State and Territory Member Associations advocated strongly for the ACCC to:

• Confirm the impact and identify a solution to ensure fair and reasonable access and use of technical and repair information for independent mechanical and motor body repairers;
• Further investigate manufacturer and dealer relationships, and in particular dealer agreements, following the release of the draft interim report in August 2017, which in the opinion of MTAA presented an unbalanced view and unfairly portrayed dealership accountability in consumer guarantee and warranty matters in particular;
• Examine concerns surrounding proposed changes to Australian Consumer law definitions of major and minor faults, among other issues.

Please follow the link below to access the MTAA media release  Download .pdf

The ACCC New Car Retailing Industry Market Study final report can be accessed using the link:  Download .pdf