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This guidance concerns the CMA's activities in monitoring and enforcing compliance with final merger and market undertakings and orders.
Templates for confidentiality ring and disclosure room undertakings and disclosure room rules used in CMA investigations.
Consumer rights guide for undergraduate students choosing or currently taking a higher education course and their advisers.
Outlines the CMA’s approach to imposing administrative penalties for failure to comply with requirements imposed under its investigatory and remedies powers.
Guidance for lawyers and third parties on how the CMA collects information before deciding whether to investigate a merger.
Explains the main things businesses need to know to stay on the right side of competition law and to spot and report illegal activity.
This guidance explains how the CMA handles information and complaints we receive about businesses and business practices.
These undertakings ban outlet and freezer exclusivity.
These orders, and the tank transfer price calculator, are intended to make it easier for customers to switch LP gas suppliers.
The topics in the Market Guidance are based on analysis of the notifications received under the NSI Act and feedback from stakeholders on their experience of the system.
Guidance on competition disqualification orders.
Explains the CMA’s approach to the variation and termination of merger, monopoly and market final undertakings and orders.
This Order requires price transparency, provides for better early termination loan terms and enables customers to access other forms of loan.
This order requires local bus operators, with bus stations, to allow competing bus operators access to their bus stations.
The section 3 statement sets out how the Secretary of State expects to exercise powers under the NSI Act to call-in certain acquisitions for scrutiny.
Quick guide, intended primarily for business, providing a simple overview of the UK merger regime and the CMA’s approach when reviewing mergers.
Guidance for businesses, brands and their agencies on how to ensure that online reviews and social media endorsements are honest and transparent.
A template of a confidentiality waiver that allows discussions between the CMA and other competition authorities on multi-jurisdictional merger investigations.
Rules of procedure for appeals to the CMA against certain decisions made by Ofgem or the Northern Ireland Authority for Utility Regulation.
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