COVID-19: temporary relaxation of competition law to allow supermarkets to work together and CMA statement on approach to essential business cooperation | Practical Law
On 19 March 2020, the government announced, that as part of a package of measures to allow supermarkets to work together to feed the nation during the 2019 novel coronavirus disease outbreak (COVID-19), elements of competition law will be temporarily relaxed. The CMA has also issued a statement on its approach to enforcement in relation to other essential business cooperation.