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It has taken quite a while but the Business Contract Terms (Assignment of Receivables) Regulations 2018 (the Regulations) were made on 23 November 2018.

On 31 January 2017, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy published guidance on these obligations which gives some much needed further detail on how the new obligations will work.

After a lengthy consultation, in December 2016 the Chartered Trading Standards Institute finally published its much anticipated new guidance on pricing practices, entitled The Guidance for Traders on Pricing Practices.

Competition authorities at both European and national levels are turning their attention to markets affecting the retail sector.

Investigations of this type look for outright price-fixing, resale price maintenance and restrictions on sales.

The legal relationship between business and the consumer will be fundamentally reshaped by the Consumer Rights Act 2015 (CRA), the key sections of which came into force on 1 October 2015.

On October 1, the Consumer Rights Act 2015 went into effect in the UK. The Act, which is divided into three parts, encompasses the entire United Kingdom, and extends consumer rights and significantly restructures overall business-to-consumer relationships.

In his emergency summer budget of July 8, Chancellor George Osborne announced changes to the Sunday trading rules in England and Wales. In this bulletin we provide a brief reminder of the current rules and look at what the proposed changes mean.

From 1 October 2014, consumers will have a new right of direct action against traders who engage in misleading or aggressive commercial practices.

The Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Payments) Regulations 2013 come into force in the UK on 13 June 2014.

The draft Consumer Rights Bill was published on 12 June 2013 and will represent a major overhaul of consumer protection law in the UK. The Bill seeks to consolidate important parts of consumer law, make it more user friendly and robust and bring it up to date to account for the digital age.

The Commercial Agents (Council Directive) Regulations 1993 (the ‘Regulations’) are the UK’s implementation of a European directive (EC Directive 86/653).

On Monday 10 October 2011, the EU Council adopted the Consumer Rights Directive (the 'CRD') which aims to increase consumer protection and confidence in doorstep and distance selling across Europe.