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This Overview guides you to weekly highlights across UK and EU competition law, directing you to case analyses, policy updates and primary materials. Staying current is critical given active enforcement by the Competition and Markets Authority and the European Commission, frequent appellate decisions, and evolving regimes affecting digital markets and subsidies.

Coverage tracks developments under the Competition Act 1998 (Chapters I and II), the Enterprise Act 2002 merger regime, and UK subsidy control, alongside EU rules under Articles 101 and 102 TFEU, the EU Merger Regulation, State aid, the Digital Markets Act and the Foreign Subsidies Regulation. It also flags matters before the Competition Appeal Tribunal, the General Court and the Court of Justice.

Practitioners will find concise summaries of infringement and merger decisions, market investigations, interim measures, leniency, commitments and settlements; updates to guidance, procedural rules and block exemptions (including vertical and motor vehicle regimes); and notable consultations and policy statements. The highlights note remedies, penalties, procedural rights of defence, and implications for parallel civil claims and collective proceedings.

Where relevant, the materials point to practical tools: trackers, and analysis on concurrency, dawn raids, information requests, confidentiality...

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