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Understand and avoid all types of anti-competitive and cartel activity including price-fixing, collusion, bid-ridding and sharing markets. Know how to report concerns to the CMA.
All businesses, whatever their size, must understand how they’re affected…
You must avoid all types of anti-competitive activity in your business…
The people who run your business are responsible for ensuring it does not…
The way you report anti-competitive activity depends on the type of…
The CMA has secured commitments from 2 of the largest digital players, Amazon and Meta, in 2 separate cases, benefitting sellers and customers by ensuring fair competition on their retail platforms.
If you're advertising or marketing, including direct marketing, you must be accurate and honest and follow the advertising codes of practice
The Competition Commission closed on 1 April 2014. Its functions have transferred to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). View the closed CC site in the UK Government Web Archive . Use services and information now provided by other organisations...
A speech by Sarah Cardell, CEO of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), delivered at the CMA's 10 year anniversary event.
We help people, businesses and the UK economy by promoting competitive markets and tackling unfair behaviour. CMA is a non-ministerial department.
Find out the basic rules of VAT, how they apply to clubs and associations, and how to treat VAT on subscriptions and other payments.
Guidance on limiting competition law risks when dealing with competitively sensitive information.
A keynote speech by Martin Coleman, Non-Executive Director and Panel Chair of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), to the Swedish Competition Authority’s Pros and Cons Conference.
The CMA has accepted commitments that address the CMA’s competition concerns regarding Meta’s use of data obtained through digital display advertising.
Your chances of obtaining a useful patent are significantly greater if you use an attorney. A patent specification is a legal document and requires specialist skills to draft properly.
Intellectual property can be bought, sold or licensed.
Information on how the CMA investigated the merger, and how you can find out more.
Information on how to confess a cartel, the CMA’s leniency programme and what to expect if the cartel activity was in Scotland.
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