Aspasa is active in a broad range of activities relating to standard setting, certification of operations, data collection and reporting that is perfectly lawful and beneficial to the industry and especially to the Aspasa members.

Aspasa therefore proposes that the following guidelines are followed not only by the Association's members but also its members, staff, minimising the risk of being in violation of the Competition Legislation in S.A.

• Avoid agreements or actions that relate to product prices or professional fees
• Avoid agreements or actions that restrict non deceptive advertising
• Avoid agreements or actions that constitute a boycott
• Avoid agreements or action that could be construed as representing a division or allocation of markets among competing companies
• Avoid agreements or actions that tie the provision or purchase of one good or service to the provision or purchase of another good or service.
• Avoid agreements or actions that appear likely to have the effect of raising prices or fees or reducing the quantity or quality of available goods or services.
• Adopt an association competition law policy statement to assist association staff and members in understanding the need to comply with.
• No average prices, or other composites should be reported in the association’s dissemination of information.
• No composite data should be reported in a category where only a few submissions were received, thereby permitting the submitters to gauge their competitors’ submission