The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) will not recommend renewing a block exemption, which exempts certain forms of cooperation between shipping lines from competition law.
The European Commission’s Liner Shipping Consortia Block Exemption (CBER) was introduced in 2009 and retained into UK law at the end of 2020 after Brexit.
With the CBER due to expire in April this year, the CMA has considered whether to recommend a new UK block exemption to replace it, while the EU has already chosen to lets its own block exemption lapse.
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