The UK Government recently announced a series of reforms for strengthening the UK competition regime, including measures that will increase penalties for non-compliance, speed up.
The Digital Markets Unit will be given powers to provide tech giants with a ‘strategic market status’ and ensure that they follow a tailored code of conduct.
Advice, produced jointly by the DMU within the CMA and Ofcom, which sets out our view on how a code of conduct could apply in one instance – to govern the relationship between platforms and content providers, including news publishers.
Apple has fired back at competition regulators in the U.K., stating that an assessment of the iPhone maker's market strength was based on "unsubstantiated allegations and hypothetical concerns."