Consultation on markets regime guidance

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The Competition and Markets Authority's (CMA) purpose is to help people, businesses and the UK economy by protecting competition and tackling unfair behaviour.

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Consultation responses and final guidance published

We consulted on further amendments to the markets regime guidance. The proposed amendments build on and incorporate feedback received in our 2024 consultation and also apply the ‘4Ps’ framework to the markets regime, as outlined in the CMA’s markets approach document. The ‘markets regime guidance’ encompasses into a single document the previous guidance documents consulted on in the 2024 consultation.

We have published our consultation outcome and final guidance.

This consultation was open for responses from 20 August 2025 to 1 October 2025.

Your personal data

Your name and contact details are your personal data. In collecting, receiving, storing, accessing and using your personal data, the CMA, as controller, is processing your personal data. The CMA processes personal data in accordance with data protection law. The CMA is processing your personal data so that it can contact you again, should it need further help or information from you, in order to carry out its statutory duty under section 88(4) of the Fair Trading Act 1973 (as preserved in Schedule 24 Enterprise Act 2002) to keep under review undertakings and orders.

For more information about the CMA’s statutory functions, how the CMA processes personal data and your rights relating to that personal data (including your right to complain), please visit the CMA’s Personal Information Charter.

The Competition and Markets Authority's (CMA) purpose is to help people, businesses and the UK economy by protecting competition and tackling unfair behaviour.

________________________________________

Consultation responses and final guidance published

We consulted on further amendments to the markets regime guidance. The proposed amendments build on and incorporate feedback received in our 2024 consultation and also apply the ‘4Ps’ framework to the markets regime, as outlined in the CMA’s markets approach document. The ‘markets regime guidance’ encompasses into a single document the previous guidance documents consulted on in the 2024 consultation.

We have published our consultation outcome and final guidance.

This consultation was open for responses from 20 August 2025 to 1 October 2025.

Your personal data

Your name and contact details are your personal data. In collecting, receiving, storing, accessing and using your personal data, the CMA, as controller, is processing your personal data. The CMA processes personal data in accordance with data protection law. The CMA is processing your personal data so that it can contact you again, should it need further help or information from you, in order to carry out its statutory duty under section 88(4) of the Fair Trading Act 1973 (as preserved in Schedule 24 Enterprise Act 2002) to keep under review undertakings and orders.

For more information about the CMA’s statutory functions, how the CMA processes personal data and your rights relating to that personal data (including your right to complain), please visit the CMA’s Personal Information Charter.

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