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UK Competition and Markets Authority publishes its Annual Plan for 2024-2025

25 December 2024

The Competition and Markets Authority ("CMA") has set out its strategy for the next 12 months in its 2024/2025 Annual Plan. The plan emphasises the CMA's long-term goal to promote competitive markets and tackling unfair behaviour to deliver favourable outcomes for people, business and the UK economy "in the face of a more volatile, economically challenging and technologically disruptive environment for all", and outlines several updates, including a new focus on digital markets with the introduction of the CMA's new powers and responsibilities under the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill, which has recently been adopted.

This article was first published by Thomson Reuters, trading as Sweet & Maxwell, 5 Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London, E14 5AQ in the European Competition Law Review as "UK Competition and Markets Authority publishes its Annual Plan for 2024-2025" in (2024) 45 E.C.L.R., Issue 6 pages N-150 – N-152 and is reproduced by agreement with the publishers.

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