{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/competition-act-1998-vertical-agreements-block-exemption-order-2022/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/competition-act-1998-vertical-agreements-block-exemption-order-2022/article-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2022/516",
  "legislation_title": "The Competition Act 1998 (Vertical Agreements Block Exemption) Order 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/competition-act-1998-vertical-agreements-block-exemption-order-2022",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Market share thresholds",
  "text": "(1) The block exemption applies on condition that—\n(a) the market share held by the undertaking which is party to the agreement and which is a supplier does not exceed 30% of the relevant market on which it sells the contract goods or services, and\n(b) the market share held by the undertaking which is party to the agreement and which is a buyer does not exceed 30% of the relevant market on which it purchases the contract goods or services.\n(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), where in an agreement involving more than two parties an undertaking purchases the contract goods or services from one undertaking which is party to the agreement and sells the contract goods or services to another undertaking which is party to the agreement, the market share of the first undertaking must respect the market share threshold provided for in that paragraph both as a buyer and a supplier.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 6 in force at 1.6.2022, see art. 1(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2022/516/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:00:23.886065+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}