Unfair commercial practices guidance
- From:
- Competition and Markets Authority
- Published
- 11 December 2024
- Last updated
- 4 April 2025 鈥� See all updates
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The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has now published its unfair commercial practices guidance.
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Detail of feedback received
We received 95 responses to consultation.
Original consultation
Summary
The CMA is consulting on draft guidance on the protection from unfair trading provisions in the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers (DMCC) Act 2024.
This consultation was held on .
This consultation ran from
to
Consultation description
The unfair commercial practices (UCP) provisions in Chapter 1 of Part 4 of the DMCC Act prohibit unfair commercial practices, replacing and updating the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008.
We have provided an update about this consultation and next steps in the . We will publish a streamlined and simplified version of the draft before 6 April 2025 and run a further consultation on some aspects of the guidance on drip pricing in the summer.
The CMA has produced draft guidance on the UCP provisions which updates and, once finalised, will replace its current guidance.
The draft guidance illustrates how the UCP provisions may apply in practice and is intended to help traders to comply with them.
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