The ACCC’s Small business guide to trade practices compliance programs is designed to promote awareness of trade practices compliance issues in the small business sector and offer guidance to small business operators in their efforts to comply with trade practices obligations.

The guide also provides information on what the ACCC is likely to require from a small business in the event that it has failed to meet its trade practices obligations.

The ACCC explains that its policy does not seek compliance programs as a punishment: its purpose in requiring the implementation of compliance programs is to ensure that the business develops the skills and capacities it needs to minimise the risk of future compliance failures.