Insights: Competition law

How can businesses reduce their own environmental impact without putting themselves at a competitive disadvantage, particularly when it is consumption and stock turnover on which many business models are predicated?

Following on from my recent article on the forthcoming Subsidy Control Act 2022, this article focuses on the way in which third parties can challenge subsidies awarded under the Act.

The Subsidy Control Act marks a decisive shift in the treatment of subsidy as distinct from the EU system of State aid. This article considers what these changes will mean for granting bodies and how they will be required to adapt their compliance strategies to the new Subsidy Control Act.

Following a recent article and webinar this is the first in a series of short articles providing further consideration of various aspects of the Subsidy Control Bill.

The recently published White Paper on Subsidy Control sets out the Government's intention as to how UK law will allow or prevent State bodies to provide subsidies to business.

The Competitions and Markets Authority has recently published new advice on joint ventures between businesses and competition law.

As part of its wider consideration of e-commerce, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has launched another investigation of the use of retail "Most Favoured Nation" clauses on price comparison websites.

In conjunction with the Spend Network, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has developed a free "Screening for Cartels" tool for procurers, to help screen tender data for cartel activity.