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(1)The CMA must—
(a)monitor compliance with transferred EU merger commitments; and
(b)take such action (if any) under subsection (3) or section 95B as it considers appropriate.
(2)Any person to whom transferred EU merger commitments relate has a duty to comply with those commitments.
(3)Compliance with transferred EU merger commitments is enforceable by civil proceedings brought by the CMA for an injunction or for interdict or for any other appropriate relief or remedy.
(4)The rights of the CMA under subsection (3) are not affected by any provisions of transferred EU merger commitments which provide for disputes relating to compliance with the commitments to be resolved by arbitration.
(5)The CMA must ensure that the provisions of transferred EU merger commitments are entered and kept up to date in the register referred to in section 91.
(6)In this Part “transferred EU merger commitments” means EU merger commitments—
(a)which are the subject of an Article 95(2) transfer decision (and, where those commitments are modified by, or as contemplated by, that decision or by a later Article 95(2) transfer decision, means those commitments as so modified); and
(b)which have not been waived or substituted by the European Commission.
(7)In this section—
“Article 95(2) transfer decision” means an instrument issued by the European Commission in accordance with Article 95(2) of the EU withdrawal agreement transferring responsibility for the monitoring and enforcement of EU merger commitments to the CMA;
“EU merger commitments” means commitments attached to a decision adopted by the European Commission under Article 6(1)(b) and (2) or 8(2) of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 of 20 January 2004 on the control of concentrations between undertakings.
(8)So far as the context permits or requires, transferred EU merger commitments are to be treated for the purposes of this Part as if—
(a)any reference to the area of the European Union or of the European Economic Area included the United Kingdom;
(b)any reference to the internal market included the United Kingdom;
(c)any reference to a member State included the United Kingdom;
(d)any reference to a party to the EEA agreement included the United Kingdom.
(9)Subsection (8) is subject to any different provision made by the Article 95(2) transfer decision in question.]
Textual Amendments
F1Ss. 95A, 95B and cross-heading inserted (31.12.2020) by The Competition (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/93), regs. 1(1), 48A (with Sch. 4 para. 28) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1343, regs. 1(1), 8, 35-59)
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