CMA sends statement
of objections to online retailer over suspected resale price maintenance
The Competition
and Markets Authority (CMA) has sent a statement of objections to Dar Lighting
Limited (Dar) alleging breach of Chapter I of the Competition Act. It suspects that Dar has prevented retailers
from discounting the prices of domestic lighting products produced by Dar and
supplied online between 2017 and 2019.
The CMA did not
send its SO particular retailers. In
this case it has used Rule 5(3) of the Competition Act Rules, which allows it
to address a proposed infringement decision to fewer than all the persons who
are or were party to the relevant agreements.
This is not the
first time that the CMA has targeted resale price maintenance in the lighting
product sector. In 2017, the CMA fined
the National Lighting Company £2.7 million for resale price maintenance. In that investigation the CMA issued warnings
letters to other suppliers in the sector.
https://www.gov.uk/cma-cases/domestic-lighting-suspected-anti-competitive-practices-concerning-resale-price-maintenance
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