Article 14 Amendment to the Competition Act 1998 (Research and Development Agreements Block Exemption) Order 2022

(1)

The Competition Act 1998 (Research and Development Agreements Block Exemption) Order 2022^f1 is amended as follows.

(2)

In article 10 (hardcore restrictions), in paragraph (5)—

(a)

after the definition of “active sales” insert—

““devolved Scottish authority” has the same meaning as in section 2 of the Procurement Act 2023;”;

(b)

in the definition of “passive sales”, in sub-paragraph (c)—

(i)

after “with” insert “—”;

(ii)

“the Procurement Act 2023” becomes paragraph (i) of that sub-paragraph;

(iii)

at the end of that paragraph, insert “, or

“(ii)

in respect of a public authority that is a devolved Scottish authority, the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015, the Concession Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2016 or the Utilities Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2016;”;

(c)

after the definition of “passive sales”, insert—

““public authority” has the same meaning as in section 2(2) of the Procurement Act 2023”.

(3)

In article 18 (amendments to retained block exemption regulations), omit paragraphs (3) and (4).

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: S.I. 2022/1271, as amended by S.I. 2023/1143 and S.I. 2025/163.