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Digital Regulatory and Competition Reforms Pass Lords Committee Stage with Limited Amendments

United Kingdom
04/03/2024
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The Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill (“Bill”) has been making its way through the House of Lords committee stage. A new version of the DMCC Bill, incorporating amendments proposed by the House of Lords Grand Committee has been published here. Our team has been tracking developments closely. This short alert provides a status update on the Bill’s passage through Parliament.

As set out in our LawNow articles to date, the Bill introduces significant reforms to competition law and an entirely new digital regulatory regime. Please see our previous articles on the subject here.

One area of lively debate around the Bill was the proposed standard of review for appeals under the new digital regulatory regime, which was originally proposed as judicial review (“JR”) standard. That standard was altered by the Government to appeal on the merits for appeals against penalties imposed under the regime (but kept at the JR standard for other appeals). The Lords’ amendments do not make any further changes in this area.

Beyond this, the Lords Committee’s proposed amendments in relation to the digital regulatory regime and competition law are relatively technical and minor in nature. More substantive amendments have been proposed in relation to the consumer provisions in the Bill. For detail on these, please see our LawNow here.

Next Steps

The DMCC Bill will next go through the Report Stage in the House of Lords. This is expected to start on 11 March 2024.  

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