The Competition (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 No. 93

PART 2 Amendment of the Competition Act 1998

21.—(1) Section 59(1)(1) is amended as follows.

(2) Omit the definitions of—

(a) “Article 101(1)”;

(b) “Article 101(3)”;

(c) “Article 102”;

(d) “the Commission”;

(e) “the Council”;

(f) “the EEA Agreement”;

(g) “the European Court”;

(h) “the EC Competition Regulation”;

(i) “parallel exemption”;

(j) “section 11 exemption” (including the final “and”);

(k) “the Treaty”.

(3) In the definition of “the court”, for “60” substitute “60A”.

(4) At the appropriate places, insert—

““retained block exemption regulation” has the meaning given in section 10(12);”;

““retained exemption” has the meaning given in section 10(3);”.

(1)

Section 59(1) was amended by section 20(3) of the Enterprise Act 2002, paragraphs 218 and 221 of Schedule 5 to the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013, paragraphs 1 and 15 of Schedule 8 to the Consumer Rights Act 2015, S.I. 2004/1261, S.I. 2011/1043, S.I. 2012/1809 and S.I. 2017/385; there are other amendments to section 59 but none is relevant to these Regulations.