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CMA board extraordinary meeting minutes: 30 April 2024

Published 3 June 2024

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Meeting date: 30 April 2024

Venue: In the Cabot, London, and by videoconference

Members present

  • Marcus Bokkerink (Chair)
  • Joel Bamford
  • Justin Basini
  • Sarah Cardell (CEO)
  • Martin Coleman
  • Frank Dangeard
  • Cynthia Dubin
  • Will Hayter
  • Dame Patricia Hodgson
  • Cyrus Mehta
  • Dharmash Mistry
  • Murdoch MacLennan
  • Erik Wilson (COO)

Advisors present

  • Jessica Lennard, Chief Strategy and External Affairs Officer
  • George Lusty, Interim Executive Director for Consumer Protection and Markets
  • Chris Prevett, General Counsel
  • Mike Walker, Chief Economic Adviser

Apologies

  • Martin Coleman [footnote 1]
  • Joel Bamford [footnote 2]
  • Juliette Enser, Interim Executive Director for Competition Enforcement

CMA staff present

  • Kate Bridge, Director of Executive Office, Security, and Property
  • Anthony Wright, Director, Communications
  • Assistant Legal Director, Governance
  • Board Secretary (Minutes)

Teams

The meeting was attended by staff from the Markets team.

Minutes

1. Vets – decision on whether to make a market investigation reference

The Board gave its perspectives on the response to the recent consultation on whether the CMA should make a market investigation reference (MIR) into veterinary services for household pets in the UK. It determined that no additional views or evidence had been received that would lead the Board to revise its provisional view that an MIR is the right course of action.

It agreed that the statutory reference test had been met, and decided that the CMA should proceed with a market investigation into veterinary services for household pets in the UK, to be launched in the week commencing 20 May, and signed off the terms of reference for the MIR and the Board steer.

The Chair thanked the Board and the team for the meeting.

  1. MC was recused from this meeting as ERRA; schedule 4; paragraph 33 requires the recusal of a Board member on a matter where the Board is considering whether to refer a matter to a Panel, and the Board member in question might reasonably be expected to be a member of a group formed in connection with the matter. ↩

  2. JRB was recused from this meeting due to a previously declared conflict. ↩

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