Competition Law

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Rodger, Barry and Stephan, Andreas; Craig, Paul and Velyvyte, Julija, eds. (2026) Competition Law. In: Law Unbound. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 266-290. ISBN 9780198969808 (https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198969815.003.0014)

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Abstract

Competition law was one of the less contentious areas of policy when the United Kingdom was in the process of negotiating the Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA). EU and UK competition law were closely aligned, and the UK played a key role in helping to build a system of market regulation that focused on consumer welfare and which was underpinned by economic evidence. In contrast to subsidy control, which was both politically contentious and resulted in a detailed set of prescriptive requirements, the TCA contains only simple provisions on competition law. These are that both sides ‘shall maintain a competition law which effectively addresses’ the three major areas of regulation: anticompetitive agreements (cartels), abuse of a dominant position (high concentrations of market power within one business), and mergers that might have significant anticompetitive effects.

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Rodger, Barry ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8588-433X and Stephan, Andreas; Craig, Paul and Velyvyte, Julija
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