# The Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 (CMA Consumer Enforcement Rules) Regulations 2025, Paragraph 9: Interconnected bodies corporate


(1) Where the CMA wishes to include a provision for a monetary penalty or directions in a final infringement notice under section 200(3) of the Act, the CMA must first take steps that it considers reasonable and proportionate to—
(a) notify the other members of the group that exist at the date of the provisional infringement notice that it intends to do so, and
(b) invite written representations on whether the other member of the group is interconnected with the respondent and whether it is just, reasonable and proportionate for the penalty or directions as appropriate to be imposed on it.
(2) The CMA may specify a time period within which representations under paragraph (1)(b) must be received, and request representations to be consolidated or given by one person on behalf of others.
(3) The CMA must consider the representations received under paragraph (1)(b) before making a final decision on whether or not to make a monetary penalty or directions binding on the other members of the group in the final infringement notice.
(4) This rule does not make interconnected bodies corporate a respondent of the provisional infringement notice for the purposes of the Act or give interconnected bodies corporate the right to make representations in relation to other matters.
(5) For the purposes of this rule, when giving the provisional infringement notice to the respondent, the CMA may request that the respondent—
(a) identify all of the members of the group,
(b) provide contact details for service for each of the members of the group in line with section 332 of the Act,
(c) inform the CMA of any change to the information provided under paragraph (5)(a) and (b), and
(d) make arrangements for any members of the group to be notified that they may be bound by a final infringement notice and invite representations from them.
(6) For the purposes of this rule, the final infringement notice may include provision for the respondent to inform the CMA of any change to the information provided under paragraph (5)(a) and (b).
(7) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(a), a member of the group is notified where (as applicable)—
(a) any parent company of the relevant interconnected body corporate is notified,
(b) it has been notified relying on information provided by the respondent as being complete and accurate, or
(c) the respondent has agreed to notify it and seek their representations.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/267/schedule/paragraph/9 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/digital-markets-competition-and-consumers-act-2024-cma-consumer-enforcement-rules-regulations-2025/schedule/paragraph-9
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