{"id":83172,"date":"2017-08-02T13:02:15","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T13:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=1ca8efb124e98404f6229d2a00083199"},"modified":"2017-08-02T13:02:15","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T13:02:15","slug":"news-story-cma-proposes-to-amend-penalties-guidance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=83172","title":{"rendered":"News story: CMA proposes to amend penalties guidance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The penalties guidance sets out how the Competition and Markets Authority (<abbr title=\"Competition and Markets Authority\">CMA<\/abbr>) will calculate the financial penalties it can impose for breaches of competition law. The proposed amendments are intended to enhance transparency and clarify specific aspects of the <abbr title=\"Competition and Markets Authority\">CMA<\/abbr>\u2019s approach to calculating penalties, rather than representing major changes in the <abbr title=\"Competition and Markets Authority\">CMA<\/abbr>\u2019s practice.<\/p>\n<p>The changes include provision of further details around the assessment of seriousness of infringements, additional information regarding some illustrative mitigating and aggravating factors and the application of discounts where the <abbr title=\"Competition and Markets Authority\">CMA<\/abbr> considers approving voluntary redress schemes.<\/p>\n<p>Further information on the proposed changes and the draft revised guidance is available on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/consultations\/ca98-penalties-guidance\">consultation page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Interested parties are encouraged to respond to the consultation, which will run until 27 September 2017. Responses should be submitted by email to <a href=\"mailto:penaltiesguidance-consultation@cma.gsi.gov.uk\">penaltiesguidance-consultation@cma.gsi.gov.uk<\/a> or by post to:<\/p>\n<div class=\"address\">\n<div class=\"adr org fn\">\n<p>Penalties Guidance Team<br \/>\n<br \/>Policy and International<br \/>\n<br \/>Competition and Markets Authority<br \/>\n<br \/>6th Floor<br \/>\n<br \/>Victoria House<br \/>\n<br \/>37 Southampton Row<br \/>\n<br \/>London WC1B 4AD<br \/>\n\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CMA is consulting on proposals to amend its penalties guidance in order to reflect experience gained in applying it since it was issued in 2012.<\/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\/83172"}],"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=83172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}