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The CMA also has consumer protection responsibilities and take on new digital markets regulation responsibilities in late 2024 under the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024. [5] The CMA alongside the European Commission, the United States Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission, is a globally important antitrust ...
The programme was launched in 2002 by deputy prime minister John Prescott, [3] with the coalition government led by David Cameron ending funding in March 2011. [6]Supporters of the scheme claimed that it would " renew failing housing markets and reconnect them to regional markets", "improve neighbourhoods and" "encourage people to live and work in these areas."
The majority of the OFT's work consisted of analysing markets, enforcing consumer and competition law, merger control, licensing and supervisory work (of consumer credit, estate agency, anti money-laundering supervision), advocacy, delivering information, education programmes and campaigns to business and consumers.
Capital Market Authority (disambiguation): regulatory bodies in various countries; Catchment Management Authority (disambiguation), Australia; Census metropolitan area, a Canadian census area; Chennai Metropolitan Area, India; China Meteorological Administration; Common Monetary Area; Competition and Markets Authority, a regulatory body in the ...
Competition regulators may also regulate certain aspects of mergers and acquisitions and business alliances and regulate or prohibit cartels and monopolies. Other government agencies may have responsibilities in relation to aspects of competition law that affect companies (e.g., the registrar of companies).
The Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) of the United Kingdom was created by Section 12 and Schedule 2 to the Enterprise Act 2002 which came into force on 1 April 2003. The Competition Service is an executive non-departmental public body which was created as a support body for the Competition Appeal Tribunal.
On 22 March 2021, the Competition and Markets Authority appointed Rachel Merelie as the Senior Director for the OIM. [7] On 21 September 2021, the Office for the Internal Market officially opened and began operating as the advisory body for the UK internal market.
The Competition Commission was a non-departmental public body responsible for investigating mergers, markets and other enquiries related to regulated industries under competition law in the United Kingdom. It was a competition regulator under the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS). It was tasked with ensuring healthy ...