CMA publishes guidance on 4Ps under the Digital Markets Competition Regime
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has published guidance on 30 April 2025 on how it intends to implement the "4Ps", ie the four key principles it had announced in the context of its 2025–2026 annual plan in March 2025: pace, predictability, proportionality and process. The CMA's annual plan set out how the organisation intends to work with the new powers granted to it under the new Digital Markets Competition Regime by the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024. The CMA aims to promote business trust and confidence through the 4Ps and encourage investment and innovation. The guidance sets out what the CMA has done previously to deliver on each principle, and what it intends to do in future.