The CMA has today issued the first decision in which it has fined a retailer for resale price maintenance (RPM). To date, fines have only been imposed on the manufacturer or wholesaler requiring that the minimum price be charged to customers. A retailer of musical...
The CMA has today given businesses reassurance that, if they need to cooperate to respond to the covid crisis this cooperation will not necessarily be treated as a breach of the competition rules. However, the CMA guidance was caveated, maining businesses should still...
The CMA has made it clear that its substantive assessment of merger clearance applications will not change as a result of the coronavirus crisis. However, while still in line with this approach, the impact of the crisis has led to the CMA’s first provisional decision...
