This Act regulates competition in digital markets, strengthens consumer protection, and modernises competition law. It creates a new regime for designating dominant digital firms and imposing conduct requirements on them, reforms merger control and market investigation procedures, and enhances enforcement powers against unfair trading practices.
A Bill to provide for the regulation of competition in digital markets; to amend the Competition Act 1998 and the Enterprise Act 2002 and to make other provision about competition law; to make provision relating to the protection of consumer rights and to confer further such rights; and for connected purposes.
Status: Act of Parliament
Current House: Unassigned
Stage: Royal Assent
Sponsored by: Kemi Badenoch, Lord Offord of Garvel
Introduced: 2023-04-25
Royal Assent: 2024-04-30