Review of merger remedies approach

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) helps people, businesses and the UK economy by promoting competitive markets and tackling unfair behaviour. Ensuring effective competition will drive greater innovation, investment and growth, which in turn, will deliver sustained and long-term benefits across the UK economy. The CMA’s merger control function is part of its general duty to seek to promote competition for the benefit of consumers.

About this call for evidence

We are seeking views on how we can balance different types of remedies and ensure an efficient process – improving pace, predictability, proportionality and process (also known as the ‘4Ps’).

We want our approach to merger remedies to embody the 4Ps, so we’re launching this review.

We want to hear from you

We're seeking your input on:

• the CMA’s approach to remedies
• preserving pro-competitive merger efficiencies and merger benefits
• running an efficient remedies process

We want to hear from all interested parties, and encourage you to reference your experience of previous CMA cases. We also welcome evidence from experience of merger remedies approaches in other jurisdictions.

During this call for evidence, we will also run outreach and roundtable sessions to get your input.