{"id":56034,"date":"2015-03-27T13:16:14","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T13:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=2d96fa1d97ac723688c48e5a3babf6aa"},"modified":"2015-03-27T13:16:14","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T13:16:14","slug":"news-story-new-advice-on-competition-law-and-leniency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=56034","title":{"rendered":"News story: New advice on competition law and leniency"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Company secretaries play a key role in advising boards on their corporate responsibilities, so the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/company-secretaries-advice-on-competition-law\">first summary<\/a> offers them a quick guide on how to identify actions that may put a business at risk from competition law.<\/p>\n<p>It also provides information on how to assist a company towards an effective compliance strategy and a warning of the potential penalties should a firm be in breach of the law.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/cartels-and-leniency-information-for-businesses-and-individuals\">second summary<\/a> provides information on the Competition and Markets Authority\u2019s (<abbr title=\"Competition and Markets Authority\">CMA<\/abbr>) leniency policy for those who have been involved in a cartel and also warns of the potentially serious consequences of being involved in cartel activity.<\/p>\n<p>The summary goes on to explain the benefits of applying for leniency if an individual or their business has been involved in a cartel arrangement and how they can contact the <abbr title=\"Competition and Markets Authority\">CMA<\/abbr> to discuss leniency further. It also lays out the conditions attached to a successful application for leniency.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CMA has today issued a pair of 60-second summaries advising businesses on how to comply with competition law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56034"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}