I am the Senior Director for Antitrust Enforcement at the CMA. Together with Howard Cartlidge (Senior Director of Cartels and Criminal Enforcement), I head up the delivery of the CMA’s Competition Act 1998 portfolio. I want to highlight the great …
The CMA has published its latest annual report on the concurrency regime. In a nutshell, concurrency refers to the fact that both the CMA and sector regulators (such as the regulators in the communications, energy, water, aviation, rail, healthcare, financial …
Natalie Harsdorf, Deputy Managing Director, Austrian Bundeswettbewerbsbehörde and Ann Pope, CMA Senior Director, Antitrust Last week Kate Collyer, CMA Deputy Chief Economic Adviser, and I had the pleasure of speaking...
...The cases saw a wide range of illegal behaviour, including: price-fixing agreements (in one case using computer algorithms) between suppliers market-sharing to allocate customers suppliers preventing online retailers from cutting...
...use to get what they’re due. Important changes included giving the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) the power to hear standalone claims. This introduced a fast-track CAT procedure so small businesses...
Alex Chisholm talks about the benefits of effective competition enforcement throughout the EU, the European Commission’s related consultation and why your views count. The new year is traditionally a time...
What next for criminal cartel enforcement? CMA Cartels and Criminal Group head Stephen Blake reflects on the implications of the recently concluded galvanised steel tanks criminal case. With the sentencing...
All businesses must comply with competition law. Putting in place a compliance programme can help you to avoid the risk of breaking the law. CMA's investigation into estate and letting...