The UK Digital Markets Competition Regulation Forum 2024 - 2nd Annual

Registration
08:50

Chairpersons’ Opening Remarks
09:20

CMA Keynote: The Digital Markets Regime
09:30

Unpacking Implementation and Discussing Key Issues in the Designation Debate
10:00

• Assessing the guidance and processes of DMU
• What to expect in the first 12 months of the regime
• What can we expect with the first designations

Discussing Design of Conduct Requirements
10:40

• Constructing conduct requirements
• Assessing processes of the CMA

Networking & Refreshment Break
11:20

Regulator Panel: Remedies Design in Digital Markets in Practice
11:40

• The role for different regulators in the implementation of the regime
• What is there to learn from the DMA and other Sectoral Regulators?
• Constructing conduct requirements

Examining Recent Developments in Tech Merger Control
12:30

• New and emerging merger reforms under the DMCC
• How the new merger reporting obligation looks
• Recent Tech Mergers and implications for the DMCC
• How the SMS Regime may or may not change the approach to remedies

Networking & Lunch Break
13:10

In-House Perspective: Strategic Market Status Firms and Challenger Firms Unpack DMCC Implementation
14:10

• Engagement in the consultation and regulatory process
• Challenges faced and lessons learned from the DMA regime and how to improve upon it in the DMCC
• Assessing the Conduct Requirements
• The extent to which DMA compliance can be extended to meet the UK regime

Exploring the Interplay Between the CMA’s New Consumer Enforcement and Digital Markets
15:10

• When is consumer law a better tool than competition law or conduct requirements
• Scope for consumer powers to bite on a much broader range of firms than SMS
• AI being tackled through consumer enforcement
• The growing importance of consumer law in parallel regimes

Networking & Refreshment Break
15:50

Assessing the Potential for Private Enforcement of the SMS Regime
16:10

• What this means for the already booming competition collective actions regime
• Scope of Individual actions in the new landscape
• What we can learn from private enforcement in Europe following the DMA and its implications for the UK

Where does the DMCC Leave Existing Public Enforcement?
16:50

• Investigations for challenger firms and not yet designated SMS firms
• Other areas / digital cases the CMA might prioritise
• The potential for further CA98 enforcement against big tech

Chairpersons’ Summation and Close of Conference
17:30