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Briefings

Briefings

The UK's new competition regime for digital platforms with strategic market status

1 December 2020

On 27 November 2020, the UK Government announced its intention to establish a new regime to govern the behaviour of "digital platforms" funded by online advertising that have Strategic Market Status. This regime will comprise a mandatory code of conduct and will be enforced by a new Digital Markets Unit to be established within the Competition and Markets Authority in April 2021.

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