The Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill – What's New on the Competition Side?

In addition to the headline landscape reforms to digital markets (see our update here) and consumer protection (see here), the much-anticipated Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill (the Bill), introduced into Parliament on 25 April 2023, makes wide-ranging enhancements to the competition powers of the Competition and Markets Authority (the CMA) and changes to the UK merger regime. 

Melanie Musgrave and Leonia Chesterfield take a look at a few key changes to competition law proposed by the Bill.