What is the CMA responsible for? - ✔✔- investigating mergers which could restrict
competition
- conducting studies into markets where they may be competition problems
- investigating potential breaches of the Competitive Act 1998
- bringing criminal proceedings against cartel offences
- enforcing consumer protection legislation
- encouraging regulators to use their competition powers
- considering regulatory references and appeals
What are the penalties for anti-competitive behaviours? - ✔✔- CMA can enter premises and
demand relevant documents to establish whether breaches made
- Can impose a fine for failure to comply of up to 5% of annual revenue
- Adverse publicity
- Competition Disqualification Orders may be made against directors
How are externalities regulated? - ✔✔- price regulations (min or max selling prices)
- taxation or tariffs
- subsidies to suppliers (to encourage exports)
- quotas (physical limits on output), standards and fines
What is viewed as market abuse? - ✔✔- insider dealing
- manipulating transactions (misleading info on supply, prices etc)
- manipulating devices
- dissemination (giving out false information)
, - distortion and misleading behaviour
What is market abuse? (according to the Code of Market Conduct) - ✔✔behaviour which
occurs in relation to qualifying investments trading on a prescribed market, securities listed on
the London Stock Exchange
What is insider trading? - ✔✔- improper disclosure
- misuse of information
What does the Market Abuse Regulation do? - ✔✔- extending insider dealing
- creating a 'market soundings' framework
- extending market manipulation rules
- making certain transactions exempt from rules
- placing obligations on organisations
What is fraudulent trading? - ✔✔Where a business is carried on with intent to defraud
creditors of the company or for any fraudulent purpose.
What is wrongful trading? - ✔✔Where an insolvent company knew that there was no
reasonable prospect of avoiding insolvent liquidation or where the director took insufficient
steps to minimise the potential loss to creditors
What reasons may lead to the disqualification of a director? (9) - ✔✔- insider dealing
- fraudulent or wrongful trading
- violating competition laws
- an offence in connection with the promotion, formation, management or liquidation of a
company, or management of a company's property
- directing an insolvent company
- being unfit to act as director
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