Consultation outcome

Procedure for dealing with requests to carry out the test in Schedule 4 to the Groceries Market Investigation (Controlled Land) Order 2010

This consultation has concluded

Read the full outcome

CLO Procedures Guidance

Response to consultation

Detail of outcome

The CMA has published its interim response to the consultation and issued revised guidance for the Procedure for dealing with requests to carry out the test in Schedule 4 of the Groceries Market Investigation (Controlled Land) Order 2010.

Update on the CMA’s internally developed software tool

30 March 2021: In the CMA’s consultation response of 27 November 2020, we delayed the introduction of the CMA’s internally developed software tool and the proposed changes associated with the tool. In this response, we committed to provide an update on our plans regarding the tool by 31 March 2021.

The work on the CMA’s internal software tool is ongoing and our development team is still working to make sure that the issue previously identified is fully addressed. In light of this, we will continue to use the updated version of the ‘CLO Procedures Guidance’ which was published on 27 November 2020. This includes a number of proposed changes to the Test procedure which respondents were broadly supportive of. See our ‘Response to the consultation’ document, for further detail on the nature of these changes.

We will provide a further update on our plans for the tool and proposed associated changes once the development work is complete and it is possible to use the tool operationally within the CMA’s test procedures.

Feedback received

ASDA

Sainsbury's

Tesco

Detail of feedback received

The responses can be found above.


Original consultation

Summary

The CMA is consulting on proposed changes to its procedures guidance for dealing with requests to carry out the test in Schedule 4 to the Groceries (Controlled Land) Order 2010.

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Consultation description

UPDATE: In light of the recent pressures facing parties most affected by the proposed changes in this consultation, we will be extending the consultation deadline by six weeks. The consultation will now run until Monday 8 June 2020.

The CMA is consulting on its procedures guidance document for dealing with requests to carry out the test in Schedule 4 to the Groceries (Controlled Land) Order 2010, as well as a number of changes to help improve the clarity of the test procedures. The CMA is seeking the views of all interested parties.

Documents

CLO Procedures Guidance

Updates to this page

Published 13 March 2020
Last updated 30 March 2021 + show all updates
  1. Update on the CMA’s internally developed software tool.

  2. Consultation deadline extended to Monday 8 June 2020.

  3. First published.

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