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Competition Act: Expanded private enforcement rights now in force
On Friday, June 20, 2025, Competition Act amendments came into force that significantly expand private parties’ ability to bring cases to the Competition Tribunal.
United Kingdom | Publication | March 2024
On February 23, 2024, the DWP published a consultation paper with proposals facilitating DB scheme surplus extraction and investment of scheme assets in the productive finance proposals outlined in the 2023 Mansion House speech. It also introduces the plan for a public consolidator vehicle operated by the PPF by 2026, which aims to be accessible to smaller, less well-funded schemes unable to secure an insurance buy-out.
The DWP’s core propositions with respect to scheme surplus are:
The consultation also includes a short survey for DB schemes which seeks information on issues such as schemes’ size (in terms of assets, liabilities and membership), whether they would be likely to change investment strategy if surplus were more accessible and if they would anticipate extracting surplus if this were made easier.
The consultation closes on April 19, 2024.
On March 1, 2024, the PPF published its initial view on how the new public consolidator could be structured. The consolidator is to be aimed at schemes which are unattractive to commercial providers, while increasing levels of investment in high-growth UK assets. The PPF acknowledges that it had not set out a complete or definitive solution, but it hopes that sharing its early thinking will support effective debate helping the refinement of the proposals.
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On Friday, June 20, 2025, Competition Act amendments came into force that significantly expand private parties’ ability to bring cases to the Competition Tribunal.
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The Pension Schemes Bill offers the prospect of access to surplus, definitive rules for superfunds, a reduced PPF levy and easier recovery of overpayments. Change is underway.
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On June 12, the Canadian Securities Administrators published a proposed replacement of National Instrument 43-101 Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects and its related companion policy and form of technical report.
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