{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/digital-markets-competition-and-consumers-act-2024/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/digital-markets-competition-and-consumers-act-2024/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2024/13",
  "legislation_title": "Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/digital-markets-competition-and-consumers-act-2024",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Designation of undertaking",
  "text": "(1) The CMA may designate an undertaking as having strategic market status (“SMS”) in respect of a digital activity carried out by the undertaking where the CMA considers that—\n(a) the digital activity is linked to the United Kingdom (see section 4), and\n(b) the undertaking meets the SMS conditions in respect of the digital activity.\n(2) The SMS conditions are that the undertaking has—\n(a) substantial and entrenched market power (see section 5), and\n(b) a position of strategic significance (see section 6),\nin respect of the digital activity.\n(3) Subsection (1) is subject to section 7 (the turnover condition).\n(4) The CMA may only designate an undertaking as having SMS in respect of a digital activity after carrying out an SMS investigation in accordance with this Chapter.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 2 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 339(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 2 in force at 1.1.2025 by S.I. 2024/1226, regs. 1(2), 2(1)(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2024/13/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-05T03:35:09.592730+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."
}