Coverage Check — CMA Competition Act Procedures and Guidance
Audit of public-source material that may be missing from this policy thread.
Likely missing — should be added
8 itemsThe final published Annual Plan is a key policy document setting out CMA's competition enforcement and guidance priorities, directly relevant to this thread.
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What it adds: Adds the final outcome/publication of the annual plan consultation, distinct from the consultation open event.
"The CMA has now published its 2026 to 2027 Annual Plan, the first detailed implementation plan under the new 2026 to 2029 Strategy."
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— CMA Competition Act Procedures and Guidance
The CMA's formal response to the government's competition regime reform consultation is a primary source document directly relevant to Competition Act procedures.
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What it adds: Adds the CMA's published response to the regime-reform consultation, providing the regulator's position on proposed legislative changes to its own procedures.
"Our strategy for 2026 to 2029 sets out our approach to promote competition and protect consumers, with a clear end goal in mind: to drive economic growth and improve household prosperity."
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— CMA Competition Act Procedures and Guidance
The CMA's three-year strategy is a foundational policy document that shapes all Competition Act procedures and guidance work covered by this thread.
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What it adds: Adds the overarching strategic framework document that underpins all CMA Competition Act procedural and guidance work in the thread's timeframe.
"This document sets out our approach over the next 3 years to promote competition and protect consumers, with a clear end goal in mind: to drive economic growth and improve household prosperity."
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— CMA Competition Act Procedures and Guidance
This is the statutory instrument that directly implements the CMA's TTBER recommendation — the primary legislative output of the consultation already on the thread.
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What it adds: Adds the made SI (UKSI 2026/369) that brings the Technology Transfer Block Exemption Order into force, the direct legislative outcome of the TTBER consultation process.
"This Order is a block exemption Order under section 6 of the Competition Act 1998. It gives effect to the recommendation of the Competition and Markets Authority that certain technology transfer agreements constitute a category of agreements likely to be exempt from the Chapter I prohibition."
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— CMA Competition Act Procedures and Guidance
The updated CMA8 guidance is the core procedural guidance document for Competition Act 1998 investigations and is central to this thread's subject matter.
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What it adds: Adds the final published outcome of the CMA8 consultation (already on thread as a consultation), i.e. the updated guidance document itself published January 2025.
"Updated version of CMA8 published following consultation. Published 4 November 2020, last updated 2 January 2025."
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— CMA Competition Act Procedures and Guidance
The CMA Connect version of the annual plan consultation is the parallel engagement platform entry, consistent with the pattern of dual gov.uk/connect.cma.gov.uk entries already on the thread.
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What it adds: Adds the CMA Connect portal entry for the 2026-27 annual plan consultation, mirroring the gov.uk entry and consistent with the thread's pattern of dual-platform citations.
"The Competition and Markets Authority is consulting on its draft Annual Plan for 2026 to 2027, the first detailed implementation plan under the new 2026 to 2029 Strategy."
The final 2025-26 Annual Plan is a key policy document directly relevant to CMA Competition Act procedures and enforcement priorities.
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What it adds: Adds the final published 2025-26 Annual Plan, the outcome of the consultation, covering Competition Act enforcement priorities for that year.
"This Annual Plan is the third in a 3-year strategy cycle that began in 2023, setting out CMA priorities for competition enforcement, markets work and consumer protection."
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— CMA Competition Act Procedures and Guidance
The CMA Connect entry for the 2025-26 annual plan consultation follows the thread's established pattern of dual gov.uk/connect.cma.gov.uk citations for CMA consultations.
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What it adds: Adds the CMA Connect portal entry for the 2025-26 annual plan consultation, consistent with the thread's dual-platform citation pattern.
"The CMA has now published its 2025 to 2026 Annual Plan. This consultation gave stakeholders and interested parties the opportunity to provide views on our draft Annual Plan for 2025 to 2026."
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9 itemsLow confidence — needs review
1 itemThis news announcement about the CMA markets remedies review is related to the strategic review of CMA markets remedies already on the thread, but may add context as a news announcement event.
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What it adds: Adds the press release/news announcement accompanying the markets remedies review consultation already on the thread, potentially as a separate news event.
"The Competition and Markets Authority is launching a review of a number of existing market remedies to determine whether they are still required, in a bid to ease the burden on thousands of businesses."
Already covered in this thread
6 itemsThis is the CMA's primary annual planning consultation for 2026-27, directly relevant to CMA procedures and strategic direction under the Competition Act framework.
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What it adds: Adds the formal annual plan consultation event (open and outcome) which sets CMA's enforcement and guidance priorities for the year, not yet on the thread.
"The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is consulting on its draft Annual Plan for 2026 to 2027. This consultation ran from 21 January 2026 to 5pm on 18 February 2026."
This DBT consultation on legislative refinements to the UK competition regime directly affects CMA Competition Act procedures and is closely linked to the thread's subject matter.
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What it adds: Adds a government-led consultation on reforming the statutory framework underpinning CMA Competition Act procedures, not currently on the thread.
"This consultation seeks views on proposals to improve the pace, predictability, proportionality and process of engagement of the UK's competition regime."
The 2025-26 annual plan consultation is a direct predecessor to the 2026-27 plan already identified as missing, and sets out CMA's Competition Act enforcement priorities for the year.
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What it adds: Adds the 2025-26 annual plan consultation, filling a gap in the thread's coverage of CMA annual planning cycles relevant to Competition Act procedures.
"We will consider all responses and publish a final version of the annual plan by the end of March 2025. We will publish a summary of responses and feedback received through our stakeholder engagement."
This is the PDF of the updated CMA8 guidance, which is the outcome document of the CMA8 consultation already cited on the thread at https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/investigation-procedures-in-competition-act-1998-cases-cma8.
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What it adds: The underlying guidance document is already represented by the consultation URL on the thread; the PDF asset is a supporting document rather than a separate event.
"The CMA will apply this guidance flexibly, having regard to the guidance when dealing with suspected competition law infringements but adopting a different approach when the facts of an individual case reasonably justify it."
This is the consultation document sub-page for the 2025-26 annual plan; it may be redundant if the parent consultation URL is added, but could be cited as the substantive document.
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What it adds: Adds the substantive draft plan document within the 2025-26 consultation, which may be useful as a direct link to the plan text rather than the consultation landing page.
"In the pages that follow, we lay out for consultation the areas we propose to focus on, over the medium-term and during the next 12 months."
This is the substantive draft plan document sub-page within the 2026-27 consultation; it may be redundant if the parent consultation URL is added.
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What it adds: Adds the substantive draft plan document within the 2026-27 consultation, useful as a direct link to the plan text.
"This Annual Plan is the first detailed implementation plan under our new 2026 to 2029 Strategy, setting out annual priorities and changes we are making to the way we work for each of our functions."
Background context only
1 itemThe CEO speech launching the CMA's 2026-29 strategy provides important context for the thread's policy direction but is not itself a procedural or guidance document.
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What it adds: Provides background context on the strategic rationale behind CMA Competition Act procedure reforms but is not a primary policy or consultation document.
"A speech by Sarah Cardell, the CMA's Chief Executive, delivered at the Chatham House Competition Policy Conference 2025 to launch the CMA's 2026 to 2029 strategy."