All PRA articles – Page 22
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PRA offers EU evidence on alleged oil-price rigging
The PRA has offered to submit evidence to the European Commission on alleged anti-competitive pricing tactics in the UK fuel market. The move follows last week’s raids on three oil companies and oil market data specialist Platts, by EU Commission agents investigating allegations of oil-price fixing. In a letter to ...
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PRA concern over MSA fuel-price signage
The Petrol Retailers’ Association (PRA) has questioned Downing Street’s plans to force Motorway Service Areas to display the cost of fuel on road signs. Service stations were identified by the Office of Fair Trading in its report on the service station sector, published in January, which suggested that prices at ...
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PRA welcomes investigation on oil price manipulation
The Petrol Retailers’ Association has welcomed the move by the European Commission to investigate alleged oil price fixing by the major operators. European Commission investigators raided the offices of several major oil companies yesterday, including BP and Shell, as an investigation into price manipulation began. The Commission said it suspected ...
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PRA stages regional forum in Worcester
The PRA’s next Regional Forum is being held in Worcester on Tuesday 14th May. The event is taking place at the Sixways Stadium, with coffee available from 10am, and a free buffet lunch will be provided. Topics on the agenda include: PRA – Deloitte study into UK fuels market and ...
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PRA informs MPs inquiry
The PRA has submitted evidence on the pressures facing independent petrol, stations to a cross party group of MPs investigating the state of the UK retail sector.The Department for Business Innovation and Skills Select Committee recently launched an inquiry into the UK retail market to question the effects regulations and ...
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PRA presents evidence on market to MPs
The PRA has submitted evidence on the pressures facing independent petrol stations to a cross party group of MPs investigating the state of the UK retail sector. The Department for Business Innovation and Skills Select Committee recently launched an inquiry into the UK retail market to question the effects regulations ...
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PRA praises decision to scrap duty increase but says cut was justified
The fuel industry has praised the Chancellor’s decision to scrap the fuel duty increase due in September.In his Budget statement, the Chancellor said he was cancelling the rise "to support motorists and businesses".The PRA chairman, Brian Madderson, said: "Taking into account the projection of RPI in the first quarter of ...
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PRA welcomes scrapping of duty increase
The fuel industry, campaigners and motorists have praised the Chancellor’s decision to scrap the fuel duty increase due in September. In his Budget statement the Chancellor said he was cancelling the fuel duty increase “to support motorists and businesses”. He said fuel duty will have been frozen for nearly three ...
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PRA calls for duty cut in Budget
The PRA is calling on Government to not only cancel the planned duty rise for fuel on 1 September, but to announce a 2 pence per litre duty cut in next week’s Budget. The PRA also advises that this reduction in duty should not be implemented until 1 April, to ...
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PRA wins victory over emergency planning
The PRA has won a significant victory in its campaign for the Government to overhaul the National Emergency Plan Fuels (NEPF) scheme.Under the scheme there are about 700 Designated Filling Station (DFS) sites across England, Scotland and Wales which would receive road fuels supplies under emergency conditions.However, PRA chairman ...
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PRA wins emergency planning overhaul
The PRA has won a significant victory in its campaign for the Government to overhaul of the National Emergency Plan – Fuels (NEP–F) scheme.Under the scheme there are about 700 Designated Filling Station (DFS) sites across England, Scotland and Wales which would receive road fuels supplies under emergency conditions.However, during ...
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PRA stages forum in Belfast
The PRA’s next Regional Forum is being held in Belfast on Thursday 21 March.The event is taking place at Maldron Hotel (formerly Park Plaza), Belfast International Airport, with coffee available from 10am, and a free buffet lunch will be provided.Topics on the agenda include: PRA - Deloitte study into UK ...
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Supermarket fuel discounts should face axe, says PRA
The initiative by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) that will see supermarkets stick to helping shoppers with lower grocery pricing instead of subsidising fuel offers is music to the ears of all our small, often family-owned and run, petrol filling stations, according to Brian Madderson, chairman of the ...
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PRA concerned by tanker driver action
The strike threat by tanker drivers at Grangemouth oil refinery in Scotland is seriously concerning the petrol retailing industry, as echoes of the chaos caused by a similar situation last March emerge. Unite said its members at the Forth estuary facility will walk out for three days from today in ...
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PRA stages Forum in Oxfordshire
The PRA’s next Regional Forum is being held in Oxfordshire on February 26. The event is taking place at Oxford Witney Four Pillars Hotel, Ducklington Lane, Witney, with coffee available from 10am, and a free buffet lunch will be provided. Topics on the agenda include: PRA - Deloitte study ...
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Cut fuel duty and tax urges PRA
The Petrol Retailers’ Association is urging the Chancellor of the Exchequer to reverse fuel duty and tax rises in the next Budget because otherwise soaring fuel prices will stifle the economy.PRA chairman Brian Madderson said: “With pump prices set to continue rising, the Chancellor must take swift action in the ...
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PRA vows to fight over OFT decision
PRA chairman Brian Madderson has promised a "very robust response" and intense lobbying after an OFT investigation gave the road fuel market a clean bill of health (see News Extra, page 10).The OFT was looking into whether it should order a full inquiry into the sector after coming under intense ...
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PRA staging Forum in Blackburn
The PRA’s next Regional Forum is being held in Lancashire on February 13. The event is taking place at the Beehive Conference Centre in Haslingden Road, Blackburn, with coffee available from 10am, and a free buffet lunch will be provided. Topics on a packed agenda include: PRA - Deloitte ...
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OFT decision ’bitter blow’ to smaller dealers, says PRA
The decision by the OFT to not proceed with a full market study into the UK retail fuels sector, has been condemned by the Petrol Retailers’ Association. Brian Madderson, PRA chairman said “This was a prime opportunity, supported by considerable new information from our retailers, to tackle market manipulation of ...
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PRA calls for new planning rules to stop hypermarkets ’steam-rollering’ local businesses into oblivion
Nick Boles MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Planning, has been urged by the Petrol Retailer’s Association to develop new planning guidance for filling stations that prevents hypermarkets steam-rollering local businesses into oblivion without due process taking place. In a letter to Boles at the Department for Communities and ...