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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…
We deal with claims brought under Article 101 and Article 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and the Competition Act 1988. This includes cases which prevent, restrict or distort competition. It also includes cases dealing...
Get help to classify pharmaceutical products used to treat or prevent diseases or ailments (in humans or animals), including comparators used in clinical trials and placebos.
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...
We help people, businesses and the UK economy by promoting competitive markets and tackling unfair behaviour. CMA is a non-ministerial department.
Find out how to comply with competition law, with essential information for all businesses and sector specific guides.
Details of administrative agreements relating to VAT on certain specific transactions between members of trade bodies and HMRC.
Case studies showing examples of business cartels, and anti-competitive activity.
Information and guidance for people who advise businesses on competition and consumer issues.
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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