Guidance

Initial enforcement orders and derogations: guidance and templates

Guidance for merging parties and legal advisers on the CMA鈥檚 use of initial enforcement orders (IEOs) and derogations in merger investigations.

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This guidance has now been withdrawn and is replaced by Interim Measures and derogations: guidance and templates.

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皇冠体育app guidance explains the:

  • circumstances in which the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) will make an IEO
  • form that an IEO will typically take
  • types of derogations that the CMA is likely (or unlikely) to grant
  • timing for imposing and revoking IEOs and granting derogations

皇冠体育app IEO template is used by the CMA as the basis for interim orders made by it under the Enterprise Act 2002 (as amended) in relation to completed mergers.

皇冠体育app derogation request template should be used by merging parties as a basis for the proposed consent letter granting the derogation that would be issued by the CMA.

Updates to this page

Published 1 April 2014
Last updated 5 September 2017 show all updates
  1. New guidance, derogation request template and updated initial enforcement order template published.

  2. First published.

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