You should hear my dad talking about retail price maintenance and bar codes.

Britain is the last nation in the English-speaking world with retail price maintenance on books.

The ending of retail price maintenance was a great blow to small independent bookshops.

In a market dominated by a few large sellers, manufacturers could conspire to use retail price maintenance to charge high prices.

There is retail price maintenance by the manufacturer, both maximum price and minimum price.

Partly this reflects the lack of enthusiasm among manufacturers toward any erosion of retail price maintenance.

Are there legal restrictions on retail price maintenance, price collusion, or price discrimination?

"During the 1980's, retail price maintenance agreements were not challenged once," Mr. Pitofsky said.

Some publishers and editors agree with Mr. Maher that retail price maintenance on books is an outdated practice.

She said she rejected the argument that retail price maintenance often benefited consumers by supporting dealer networks that are able to provide better advice and service.

Price fixing is permitted in some markets but not others; where allowed, it is often known as resale price maintenance or retail price maintenance.

Retail price maintenance would continue to be legal for some goods; these included books, on which it remained in force until market forces led to its abandonment in 1995.

The latter took the lead in the one substantial piece of domestic legislation of Douglas-Home's premiership, the abolition of retail price maintenance.

Among the legislation passed under his government was the abolition of retail price maintenance, bringing costs down for the consumer against the interests of producers of food and other commodities.

The same court also upheld an accusation of retail price maintenance against Skins, who induced, by request, a retailer in Adelaide not to lower the retail prices of their products.

This involves exclusive dealing and retail price maintenance in return for which consumers are guaranteed a degree of protection and recompense in the case of financial failure of a tour operator.

Under Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home he was President of the Board of Trade and Secretary of State for Industry, Trade and Regional Development, and oversaw the abolition of retail price maintenance.

Retail price maintenance still being lawful in the case of books, the publisher might well include the recommended retail price on the cover of the book (or in an advertisement), only to be surprised subsequently to learn that a retailer has been selling at a different price.

"I believe the retail price maintenance arrangements we have in this country are very beneficial," said Tim Waterstone, who said he had been able to build up his Waterstone's network of 83 stores in Britain and Ireland in less than a decade, largely thanks to the protection from price competition.

What this very recent report says is this: 'The main gain from abandonment of retail price maintenance in the UK has been an improvement in distribution, particularly through smaller booksellers who are now able to replenish stocks and fulfil special orders in a very short time through an expanded and revitalised wholesale system.'

However, resale price maintenance goes further than this and is illegal in many regions.

Yet, he said, resale price maintenance could benefit consumers.

The complaint that resale price maintenance is primarily designed to raise prices doesn't make much sense.

He also joined the 1964 rebellion against the abolition of resale price maintenance.

Resale price maintenance, where resellers are not allowed to set prices independently.

In Japan, Ⓨ is a symbol used for resale price maintenance.

But resale price maintenance involves only a single manufacturer.

Each agreement also contained a resale price maintenance clause.

This exemption does not apply to resale price maintenance or misuse of market power.

But the provision of services explanation for minimum resale price maintenance does not survive careful review.

Resale price maintenance by manufacturers is another form of agreement in restraint of trade.

Resale price maintenance, for instance, can help consumers.

He opposed the government's move to abolish resale price maintenance in 1964, but abstained rather than vote against.

He also saw greater competition between retailers, unlike the resale price maintenance regime which seemed to exist in Australia.

There is one particular practice that has been singled out for special treatment and that is resale price maintenance.

Count I of the complaint alleged that Amway engaged in resale price maintenance.

In support of this view, you cite "recent studies" that you claim would show minimum resale price maintenance is not always unwise.

But reliable studies in this field demonstrate that the only consistent effect of resale price maintenance is to insure that consumers pay more.

Certainly, under the principles of subsidiarity, if a Member State wishes to impose resale price maintenance on books, so be it.

Resale price maintenance now exists for only two commodities in the UK: over-the-counter medicines - and books.

Resale price maintenance : this is a system under which manufacturers contractually control the minimum level of prices charged by retailers.

These were intended to protect independent retailers from the price-cutting competition of large chain stores by authorizing resale price maintenance.

It established that an agreement for resale price maintenance was unenforceable as a matter of privity of contract.

Mr President, in my own country, the United Kingdom, we had a long political debate over the value of resale price maintenance applied to books.

Resale Prices Act ends most resale price maintenance.