Competition Markets Authority
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We are reconsulting on updated guidance for CMA58. The consultation period will run from 10am 11 December 2024 until 5pm on 22 January 2025. This consultation can be found on the consumer protection: enforcement guidance page.
This guidance sets out how the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) uses its consumer protection powers to address market-wide consumer problems. It also explains how it enforces consumer protection law and uses its investigatory enforcement powers.
The guidance replaces Consumer protection guidance on the CMAs approach to use of its consumer powers (CMA7) and the Office of Fair Tradings enforcement of consumer protection legislation guidance (OFT512).
Transparency in Consumer Enforcement Cases Updated Supplementary Note was published on 4 November 2020 and provides information about the CMAs approach to transparency in consumer enforcement cases, in particular the circumstances in which it may publicly name parties under investigation.
It is based on the CMAs experience in conducting consumer enforcement work to date, and supplements the guidance on the CMAs broader approach to transparency in CMA6 Transparency and Disclosure: Statement of the CMAs Policy and Approach and CMA58 Consumer Protection: Enforcement Guidance. It replaces Transparency in Consumer Enforcement Cases Supplementary Note which had been published on 18 June 2018.