New Brexit Legal Guide Available: Antitrust And Merger Control

The updated Antitrust and Merger Control section of our Brexit Legal Guide is now available.

This provides a useful overview, amongst other things, as to whether:

• during the transition period, the CMA will apply EU competition rules when investigating conduct with an effect on trade between Member States;
• for cases in progress at the end of the transition period the Commission continues to be competent for administrative procedures initiated before the end of the transition;
• after the transition period ends the CMA and concurrent regulators will have jurisdiction to investigate suspected infringements under the Chapter I and Chapter II prohibitions of the Competition Act 1998;