Market Investigations
The Enterprise Act enables the OFT (and the sector regulators) to investigate markets and, if they are concerned that there may be competition problems, to refer those markets to the CC for in-depth investigation.
In market investigations the CC has to decide whether any feature or combination of features in a market prevents, restricts or distorts competition, thus constituting an adverse effect on competition (AEC).
If the CC concludes that this is the case, then it must seek to remedy the problems that it identifies either by introducing remedies itself or by recommending action by others.
Read more about this topic: Competition Commission (United Kingdom)
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