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Nod for UK building-sector climate cooperation deal lifts lid on CMA's thinking

By Andrew Boyce ( April 3, 2025, 15:02 GMT | Comment) -- The UK trade association for building-materials suppliers is celebrating getting the nod from the country's antitrust watchdog for its plan for the industry to cooperate by using the same service to assess supply-chain environmental sustainability. The Competition and Markets Authority had doubts, but it set conditions and then agreed that the environmental benefits outweighed the competition risks. Its decision letter offers valuable instruction for how the CMA will assess such cooperation agreements.A cooperation agreement among rival builders' suppliers might ordinarily pose potential antitrust concerns, but a recent UK example has seen enforcers put these aside on the basis that the environmental benefits are likely to “offset” any harm to competition....

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