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The Competition and Markets Authority has issued its first infringement decision under the UK's new consumer enforcement regime, fining the AA £4.2 million for misleading pricing practices and requiring substantial consumer refunds. This landmark case signals a fundamental shift in UK consumer protection enforcement, with businesses now facing significantly tougher penalties including fines up to 10% of turnover and mandatory consumer redress schemes.

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After 11.00pm on Brexit day (i.e. 29 March 2019 unless parliament and the EU decides otherwise), EU law will stop applying in the UK.

On 28 March 2017, the FCA announced that Tesco plc and Tesco Stores Limited ("Tesco") had agreed to committing market abuse in relation to a trading update published on 29 August 2014.

The European Commission (EC) has now published its final report on the e-commerce sector inquiry.

Free trade helped power a dramatic rise in living standards in the West in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

On 11 September 2015, the European Commission released an updated version of its Explanatory Note on Inspections pursuant to Article 20(4) of Council Regulation N° 1/2003.

Too broad, too limited: and too far and too fast. Over the summer, a jury took less than three hours to acquit two businessmen in the galvanised tank industry who had been charged with price fixing.

According to the first document (CA-May15-Doc.4.13-Final "Compliance with and enforcement of Article 95"), authorities could ask companies to provide a self-declaration (indicating how they comply with Article 95).