Open consultation

Unfair commercial practices guidance

• From: Competition and Markets Authority
• Published: 11 December 2024

Summary

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is consulting on draft guidance on the protection from unfair trading provisions in the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers (DMCC) Act 2024.

This consultation is being held on another website.

This consultation closes at
5pm on 22 January 2025

Consultation description

The unfair commercial practices (UCP) provisions in Chapter 1 of Part 4 of the DMCC Act prohibit unfair commercial practices, replacing and updating the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008.

The CMA has produced draft guidance on the UCP provisions which updates and, once finalised, will replace its current guidance.

The draft guidance illustrates how the UCP provisions may apply in practice and is intended to help traders to comply with them.

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Documents

Consultation document

PDF, 183 KB, 7 pages

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Draft guidance

PDF, 4.09 MB, 109 pages

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Published 11 December 2024