The Bank of England (BoE), Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), and Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) have published the 2024 Cyber Resilience Assessment (CBEST) thematic analysis, which evaluates the cyber resilience of key financial institutions through simulated cyber attacks on live production systems. The regulators plan to consult in the second half of 2025 on managing Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and cyber resilience risks, including IT transformation risks and the sector's ability to detect, withstand, and recover from disruptions due to ICT and cyber incidents.

This tracker sets out key dates and information relating to the development of autonomous and driverless vehicles in the UK, including consultations, legislative changes (including the Automated and Electric Vehicles Act 2018 (AEVA 2018) and the Automated Vehicles Act 2024 (AVA 2024)) and related guidance and announcements. This tracker also includes key EU developments to the extent relevant to the UK legislative position at the time of the development. For more information on automated vehicles, see: • Autonomous vehicles—overview • Practice Note: Autonomous vehicles—key legal issues • Practice Note: Autonomous vehicles and insurance • Practice Note: Autonomous and connected vehicles—data protection and privacy issues To follow EU developments, see Practice Notes: • Automated vehicles—key legal issues in the EU • EU automated vehicles—tracker 2026 Date Type of development Summary 17 June 2026 Consultation The Department for Transport (DfT) has launched a consultation on the draft statement of safety principles for automated vehicles, required under AVA 2024, s 2. The statutory statement will guide decisions on whether an automated vehicle may be deployed on UK

This timeline shows key developments relating to the UK bank recovery and resolution regime from January 2024 onwards. For earlier developments, see Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive (BRRD)—timeline [Archived]. 2026 Date Source Document Description 23 September 2026 Bank of England No bank too big to fail, and none too small to resolve − speech by Ruth Smith The Bank of England (BoE) has published a speech by its executive director for resolution, Ruth Smith, in which she discussed the BoE’s approach to managing small and medium-sized firm failure within the UK’s resolution framework. Smith said that, within the UK resolution regime, the BoE has a ‘robust toolkit’, but suggested it could do more to ensure it is ‘always ready’ by working with supervisors and firms to use their existing data and regulatory reporting to identify where they may be on the boundary of a bank insolvency procedure (BIP) or transfer strategy in advance. 14 July 2026 Bank of England Testing times require time for testing — speech by Ruth Smith The

The Bank of England (BoE) has revoked the retained EU law Technical Standard 2019/348 on Simplified Obligations ('SO UKTS') in the Bank Resolution Standards Instrument: The Technical Standards (Simplified Obligations) Instrument 2025. Following a consultation between December 2024 and January 2025 with no formal responses received, the revocation on 30 April 2025 proceeded in line with the approach set out in the consultation paper.

UK Finance has published the contents of a letter addressed to the governor of the Bank of England (BoE) written on behalf of the eight UK stress-tested banks and building society and UK Finance. In the letter, the parties say they share the objective of ensuring the UK remains at the technological frontier of safe and resilient payments innovation, supporting openness, trade and growth. In this context the parties welcomed the BoE’s approach to innovation in money and payments discussion paper.

The tables below list completed appeals from UK competition regulators to the Competition Appeal Tribunal, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court in relation to decisions under Article 101 TFEU and/or Chapter I of the Competition Act 1998 and Article 102 TFEU and/or Chapter II of the Competition Act 1998. Related judicial review cases are also included. For details of ongoing appeals, see UK competition appeals—ongoing cases tracker. For details of completed CMA and OFT investigations, see UK behavioural investigations under Article 101 TFEU/Chapter I Competition Act—ongoing cases tracker and UK behavioural investigations under Article 102 TFEU/Chapter II Competition Act—closed cases tracker. UK Article 101 TFEU/Chapter I Competition Act 1998 appeals Appeals to the Competition Appeal Tribunal Case (case number) Issues Latest development Keltbray Limited & Keltbray Holding Ltd v CMA (1588/1/12/23) Appeal against the CMA’s decision in Supply of construction services, seeking a reduction in the fine imposed See Application • Judgment given—20/12/2024; appeal dismissed• Lodged—02/06/2023 Cinven Capital Management (V) General Partner Limited & Others v CMA (1434/1/12/22) Appeal against the CMA’s decision in Prochlorpezarine tablets (Alliance,

The table lists completed CMA, OFT and sectoral regulator investigations since 2013 under Article 101 TFEU/Chapter I Competition Act 1998. Note—only investigations that have been made public are included in this table. For ongoing behavioural investigations, see UK behavioural investigations—ongoing cases tracker. For details of appeals, see UK competition appeals—ongoing cases tracker. For details of completed cases under Article 102 TFEU/Chapter II Competition Act 1998, see UK behavioural investigations under Article 102 TFEU/Chapter II Competition Act—closed cases tracker. For details of cases where the CMA has sought director disqualification, see UK competition director disqualifications—cases tracker 2026 Case name, companies under investigation and industry Competition authority Issues Developments Commodity futures traders (CA98.2023.01) 11 individuals FCA Restrictive agreements—exchange of commercially sensitive information • Commitments accepted—18/09/2026• Consultation on commitments launched—25/06/2026• Investigation opened—July 2023 2025 Case name, companies under investigation and industry Competition authority Issues Developments Housebuilders (51392)Barratt Developments plc, Bellway plc, The Berkeley Group plc, Bloor Homes Limited, Persimmon plc, Redrow plc, Taylor Wimpey plc and Vistry Group plc CMA Anti-competitive

The table lists completed CMA, OFT and sectoral regulator investigations since 2013 under Article 102 TFEU/Chapter II Competition Act 1998. Note—only investigations that have been made public are included in this table. For ongoing behavioural investigations, see UK behavioural investigations—ongoing cases tracker. For details of appeals, see UK competition appeals—ongoing cases tracker. For details of completed cases under Article 101 TFEU/Chapter I Competition Act 1998, see UK behavioural investigations under Article 101 TFEU/Chapter I Competition Act—closed cases tracker. For details of cases where the CMA has sought director disqualification, see UK competition director disqualifications—cases tracker. 2025 Case name and companies under investigation Competition authority Issues Latest development Gas transportationScotia Gas Networks Ofgem Alleged abuse of dominance • Commitments accepeted—02/12/2025• Consultation on commitments launched—09/09/2025• Investigation opened—08/03/2024 Vifor Pharma (abuse of dominance)Vifor Pharma CMA Alleged abuse of dominance by Vifor Pharma by making misleading claims about a competing iron treatment • Commitments accepted—23/05/2025• Consultation on commitments launched—10/12/2024• Investigation opened—31/01/2024 2024 Case name and companies under investigation Competition authority Issues Latest

The below tracks live and publicly acknowledged CMA and sectoral regulator behavioural investigations under the Competition Act 1998 and/or (for cases launched prior to 1 January 2021) Articles 101/102 TFEU and the criminal cartel offence (section 188 of the Enterprise Act 2002) and related investigations. NOTE—only investigations that have been made public are included in this table. NOTE—completed investigations are moved from this document to the case trackers for closed cases within seven days of the final decision. For details on completed CMA, OFT and sectoral regulator behavioural investigations, see UK behavioural investigations under Article 101 TFEU/Chapter I Competition Act—closed cases tracker and UK behavioural investigations under Article 102 TFEU/Chapter II Competition Act—closed cases tracker. For details of appeals, see UK competition appeals—ongoing cases tracker. For details of cases where the CMA has sought director disqualification, see UK competition director disqualifications—cases tracker. Chapter I of the Competition Act 1998 Case name, companies under investigation and industry Competition authority Issues Latest development Supply of roofing and other construction

Law360, London: Entain plc, the owner of gambling businesses Ladbrokes and Coral, said on 10 August 2023 that it has set aside £585m (US$747m) to resolve an investigation by the UK's tax authority into possible bribery offences in connection with its former Turkish online affiliate.

This Practice Note tracks the progress of the replacement of retained EU competition law in the UK. In particular, it covers: the retained Vertical Block Exemption Regulation, Retained Regulation (EU) 330/2010 (retained VBER) as replaced by The Competition Act 1998 (Vertical Agreements Block Exemption) Order 2022, SI 2022/516 (UK VABEO); the retained Motor Vehicle Block Exemption Regulation, Retained Regulation (EU) 461/2010 (retained MVBER) as replaced by The Competition Act 1998 (Motor Vehicle Agreements Block Exemption) Order 2023 SI 2023/586 (MVBEO); the assimilated Technology Transfer Block Exemption Regulation, Assimilated Regulation 316/2014 (assimilated TTBER); the retained Research and Development Block Exemption Regulation, Retained Regulation (EU) 1217/2010 (retained R&D BER) as replaced by the Competition Act 1998 (Research and Development Agreements Block Exemption) Order 2022, SI 2022/1271 (the UK R&D BEO); and the retained Specialisation Block Exemption Regulation, Regulation (EU) 1218/2010 (retained Specialisation BER) as replaced by the Competition Act 1998 (Specialisation Agreements Block Exemption) Order 2022, SI 2022/1272 (UK SABEO), together known as the retained Horizontal Block Exemption Regulations (retained HBERs) and their replacements together known as the Horizontal Block Exemption Orders (HBEOs),

This Practice Note provides practical guidance on the border controls between the United Kingdom and the European Union which applied from January 2022 and which has since been replaced by the Border Operating Target Model. It addresses customs declarations, customs duty and VAT payments and sanitary and phytosanitary checks. Introduction In November 2021, the UK published its border operating model. The border operating model set out how the UK border would work with the EU. The border operating model was first introduced on 1 January 2021 because of the UK exiting the EU’s customs union. From 1 January 2021, certain border controls were put into place. This was done in a staged approach which allowed the UK to implement the necessary infrastructure to enable border controls. Since then, the border operating model has been replaced by the Border Operating Target Model. See Practice Note: The UK's new border control regime. In December 2021, the UK updated its border operating model to temporarily extend staged customs controls for goods that