Market investigations and monopoly orders and undertakings

This page publishes the orders made and undertakings given under the market investigations provisions of the Enterprise Act 2002, and the monopoly provisions of the Fair Trading Act 1973. They result from reports by the Competition Commission or the Monopolies and Mergers Commission, or from the OFT or another sectoral regulator accepting undertakings in lieu of a market investigation reference under the Enterprise Act 2002.

Use the links below to download the relevant document.

All documents are PDF files.

Animal waste
      William Forrest and Son (59 kb)
      Prosper de Mulder revised July 2007 (83 kb)
      William Forrest and Son schedule (81 kb)

Bus services in mid and west Kent (60 kb)

Carbonated drinks
      Britvic Soft Drinks (55 kb)
      Coca-Cola Bottlers (Ulster) (83 kb)
      Coca-Cola and Schweppes Beverages (77 kb)

Classified directory advertising
Notice and Yell final undertakings (389 kb)

Credit card services
Merchant acquisition (56 kb)
Price discrimination (56 kb)

Domestic electrical goods
       Domestic electrical goods (86 kb)
      Combined Independent Holdings Limited (65 kb)
      Others (77 kb)
      Dixons Group plc (68 kb)
      Empire Stores Group (67 kb)
      General Domestic Appliances Holdings Limited 67 kb)

Electrical contracting at exhibition halls (67 kb)

Extended warranties on domestic electrical goods (92 kb)

Films
Exhibition periods (72 kb)

Foreign package holidays
       Restrictions and agreements in conduct (58 kb)
      Tour operators / travel agents 1 (67 kb)
      Tour operators / travel agents 2 (78 kb)

Home Credit Order
      Market investigation order (340 kb)
      Explanatory note (236 kb)
      Timetables for remedy implementation (127 kb)

Impulse ice cream
      Birds Eye Wall's (91 kb)
      Birds Eye Wall's (July 2000) undertakings (3.19 mb)
      Mars (80 kb)
      Nestle UK (80 kb)

Metal containers (58 kb)

National newspapers (108 kb)

New cars (81 kb)

Northern Ireland Personal Current Account Banking
      Investigation Order (209 kb)
      Investigation Order - explanatory note (178 kb)
      Notice of Suspension of Articles 5 and 6 of Order (90 kb)

Opium derivatives (39 kb)

Performing rights (63 kb)

Postal franking machines
Postal franking machines (57 kb)
Designated models of machines to be supplied to resellers (48 kb)

Private medical services (53 kb)

SME banking
      SME banking transitional (128 kb)
      SME banking switching (98 kb)
      SME banking behavioural undertakings (148 kb)
      Dates that undertakings came into effect (41kb)

Store cards (196 kb)

Structural warranty services (47 kb)

Supermarkets
Supermarkets (68 kb)
Supermarkets - code of practice (127 kb)

Telecommunications
British Telecom undertakings to OFCOM (275 kb)

Television broadcasting services (68 kb)

Trading check franchise and financial services (48 kb)

Veterinary medicinal products (85kb)

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