Guidance

Groceries Market Investigation (Controlled Land) Procedures Guidance

Guidance on the CMA’s procedure for dealing with requests to carry out the Test in Schedule 4 to the Groceries Market Investigation (Controlled Land) Order 2010.

Documents

CLO Procedures Guidance

Details

This is related to the Groceries Market Investigation (Controlled Land) Order 2010 page. The results of any tests carried out by the CMA can be found in the register of decisions.

Update on the CMA’s internally developed software tool

30 March 2021: In the CMA’s consultation response of 27 November 2020, we delayed the introduction of the CMA’s internally developed software tool and the proposed changes associated with the tool. In this response, we committed to provide an update on our plans regarding the tool by 31 March 2021.

The work on the CMA’s internal software tool is ongoing and our development team is still working to make sure that the issue previously identified is fully addressed. In light of this, we will continue to use the updated version of the ‘CLO Procedures Guidance’ which was published on 27 November 2020. This includes a number of proposed changes to the Test procedure which respondents were broadly supportive of. See our Response to the Consultation document, for further detail on the nature of these changes.

We will provide a further update on our plans for the tool and proposed associated changes once the development work is complete and it is possible to use the tool operationally within the CMA’s test procedures.

Published 30 March 2021