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UK competition update: SAU reviews Arts Council and Scottish Enterprise subsidies; CMA updates housebuilders information exchange probe and Google Privacy Sandbox commitments—11 November 2024

Published on: 12 November 2024

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Subsidy control

  • The Subsidy Advice Unit has agreed requests for advisory reports to:
    • Arts Council England on its proposed Extension Awards over £1m subsidy scheme—see further, case page
    • Scottish Enterprise on its proposed Capital Investment Scheme—see further, case page

NOTE—For all decisions referred to the Subsidy Advice Unit under the Subsidy Control Act 2022, see further, UK subsidy control—cases tracker

Antitrust

  • The CMA has updated case details regarding its ongoing investigation into suspected infringements of the Chapter I prohibition of the Competition Act 1998 involving exchanges of competitively sensitive information by housebuilders in Great Britain—see further, case page
  • The CMA issued its ninth update (for Q2 and Q3 2024) on Google’s implementation of the binding commitments accepted to tackle competition concerns in Google’s ‘Privacy Sandbox’ browser changes (50972)—see further, case page

NOTE—For all live behavioural investigations before the CMA, see further, UK behavioural investigations—ongoing cases tracker

Upcoming dates

For dates of forthcoming UK competition developments, see further, UK Competition calendar...

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