United Kingdom competition law | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-14

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00:02:32 1 UK competition law history
00:08:23 1.1 Classical trade theory
00:11:34 1.2 Restraint of trade
00:14:26 1.3 Twentieth-century change
00:17:22 2 European Union law
00:21:29 3 Competition Act 1998
00:21:40 4 Enterprise Act 2002
00:21:51 5 Office of Fair Trading
00:22:01 6 Competition Commission
00:22:11 7 Competition and Markets Authority
00:22:21 8 Network regulation
00:23:13 9 See also



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United Kingdom competition law is affected by both British and European elements. The Competition Act 1998 and the Enterprise Act 2002 are the most important statutes for cases with a purely national dimension. However, if the effect of a business' conduct would reach across borders, the European Commission has competence to deal with the problems, and exclusively EU law would apply. Even so, the section 60 of the Competition Act 1998 provides that UK rules are to be applied in line with European jurisprudence. Like all competition law, that in the UK has three main tasks.

prohibiting agreements or practices that restrict free trading and competition between business entities.  This includes in particular the repression of cartels.
banning abusive behaviour by a firm dominating a market, or anti-competitive practices that tend to lead to such a dominant position.  Practices controlled in this way may include predatory pricing, tying, price gouging, refusal to deal and many others.
supervising the mergers and acquisitions of large corporations, including some joint ventures. Transactions that are considered to threaten the competitive process can be prohibited altogether, or approved subject to "remedies" such as an obligation to divest part of the merged business or to offer licences or access to facilities to enable other businesses to continue competing.The Competition and Markets Authority enforces competition law on behalf of the public. It merged the Office of Fair Trading with the Competition Commission after the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 Part 3. Consumer welfare and the public interest are the main objective of competition law, including industrial policy, regional development, protection of the environment and the running of public services. Competition law is closely connected with law on deregulation of access to markets, state aids and subsidies, the privatisation of state owned assets and the establishment of independent sector regulators. Specific "watchdog" agencies such as Ofgem, Ofcom and Ofwat are charged with seeing how the operation of those specific markets work. The OFT and the Competition Commission's work is generally confined to the rest.