Guidance and regulation

How designated retailers are expected to fairly manage their relationships with suppliers.

• From: Department for Business and Trade and 1 others
• Updated: 4 August 2009

• Groceries Supply Code of Practice

  1. Interpretation (1) In this Code: Buying Team means those employees of a…

Guidance for businesses and their advisers on CMA's procedures for operating the merger control regime under the Enterprise Act 2002.

• From: Competition and Markets Authority
• Updated: 4 January 2022

Guidelines for businesses and their advisors on the CMA’s substantive approach to assessing mergers.

• From: Competition and Markets Authority
• Updated: 18 March 2021

The order provides measures to increase competition in the car insurance market and reduce the cost of premiums for drivers.

• From: Competition and Markets Authority
• Updated: 31 March 2021

Explains the changes introduced by the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 to the conduct of market studies and market investigations by the CMA under the Enterprise Act 2002, as amended.

• From: Competition and Markets Authority
• Updated: 5 July 2017

Guidance on the principles and process of applications for leniency and no-action in cartel cases.

• From: Competition and Markets Authority
• Updated: 24 September 2020

Guidelines for market investigations: their role, procedures, assessment and remedies.

• From: Competition and Markets Authority
• Updated: 5 July 2017

Provides a conceptual framework within which evidence on market definition can be organised, and discusses practical issues that may arise.

• From: Competition and Markets Authority
• Updated: 1 December 2004

Consumer rights guide for undergraduate students choosing or currently taking a higher education course and their advisers.

• From: Competition and Markets Authority
• Updated: 12 March 2015

This guidance explains how the CMA handles information and complaints we receive about businesses and business practices.

• From: Competition and Markets Authority
• Updated: 27 November 2014

This statement sets out the Competition and Markets Authority’s policy and approach to transparency and information disclosure.

• From: Competition and Markets Authority
• Updated: 2 December 2016

Renting a car doesn’t always go smoothly. Things can go wrong before, during or after the rental, make sure you protect yourself by reading our advice.

• From: Competition and Markets Authority
• Updated: 23 March 2016

Summary of the Green Agreements Guidance to help businesses understand how competition law applies to environmental sustainability agreements.

• From: Competition and Markets Authority
• Updated: 12 October 2023

The orders provide measures on benefits, incentive schemes and better information for patients.

• From: Competition and Markets Authority
• Updated: 1 October 2014

Explains how the CMA will assess whether undertakings possess market power when investigating cases.

• From: Competition and Markets Authority
• Updated: 1 December 2004

A 60-second summary on how to spot pyramid selling, avoid the risks of participating in it and report it.

• From: Competition and Markets Authority
• Updated: 13 October 2014

Guidance on merger remedies in Phase 1 and Phase 2 investigations.

• From: Competition and Markets Authority
• Updated: 13 December 2018

Summary of consumer rights for undergraduate students who are choosing or taking higher education courses.

• From: Competition and Markets Authority
• Updated: 12 March 2015

A 60-second summary on how consumer protection law applies to higher education providers and how to comply with it.

• From: Competition and Markets Authority
• Updated: 12 March 2015

Details of all cases from 1 April 2014 regulated by members of the UK Competition Network (UKCN).

• From: Civil Aviation Authority and 7 others
• Updated: 20 December 2023