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Competition Law

Anti-competitive agreements are rarely formalised. Parties often don't even meet or communicate directly with one other. However, any concerted action, exchange of information or 'meeting of minds' may be illegal collusion.

UK and EU competition laws prohibit anti-competitive agreements and the abuse of dominant market position. Violating competition law is a serious crime that has led to big fines for companies and long prison sentences!

Our Competition Law Compliance Training Course will help your employees understand anti-competitive practices, how to avoid them and why to speak up if they see anti-competitive behaviour.

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  • 30 Minutes
  • All staff
  • Based on UK legislation, but suitable for global audiences upon the removal of UK-specific references and translation as necessary.

Learning objectives

  • Identify types of anti-competitive agreement
  • Take action to avoid entering into anti-competitive agreements
  • Adopt measures to avoid abuse of market dominance
  • Prevent inadvertent infringements of competition law
  • Take immediate action to report concerns or violations
  • React appropriately in case of a dawn raid

    What can you expect your employees to learn?

Introduction

What is competition law?

  • Competition law in the UK & EU

Anti-competitive agreements

Horizontal & vertical anti-competitive agreements

  • You decide: Competitive or not?

Horizontal agreements

  • Horizontal block exemptions
  • Hardcore cartels
  • Crossing the line: Hardcore cartels
  • Hub-and-spoke cartels
  • Crossing the line: Hub-and-spoke cartels
  • You decide: Hardcore or hub-and-spoke cartel?
  • Commercially-sensitive information
  • Crossing the line: Commercially-sensitive information
  • You decide: Commercially-sensitive information
  • Cooperation agreements with competitors
  • Vertical agreements
  • Vertical Agreement Block Exemption
  • Restriction on VABEs
  • Online selling
  • Online selling restrictions
  • Crossing the line: Online selling
  • Scenario: Online selling
  • Resale price maintenance
  • Crossing the line: Resale price maintenance
  • You decide: Resale price maintenance
  • Legitimate agreements between related parties

A dominant position

  • You decide: A dominant position or not?
  • Abuse of dominant position
  • Crossing the line: Abuse of a dominant position
  • Scenario: Abuse of a dominant position
  • Tying & bundling
  • Tying & bundling concerns
  • Crossing the line: Tying & bundling
  • You decide: Tying & bundling

Complying with competition law

  • You decide: Acceptable discussion or not?
  • Best practice: Complying with competition law
  • Conversation 1: Profit margin
  • Conversation 2: Environmental footprint
  • Conversation 3: Brand maintenance
  • Conversation 4: Order backlog
  • Conversation 5: The new hire

Enforcement

  • Crossing the line: Enforcement
  • You decide: Enforcement
  • Penalties
  • Whistleblowing

Summary

Affirmation

Assessment

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Your questions, answered

Common FAQs

Are Skillcast courses SCORM-compliant?

Yes. This means they can be delivered via the Skillcast Portal or any other SCORM-compliant Learning Management System.

What other tools are needed beyond training?

A comprehensive compliance solution often needs more than just training. Alongside e-learning, tools like declarations, surveys, and registers that track compliance tasks are usually essential. Skillcast provides full support to help you set up these additional tools.

Is our training content still compliant with the latest legislation?

  • You can check the latest course content updates in our library updates page: https://www.skillcast.com/compliance-course-library-updates
  • For major legislative changes, we:
    • Will send you email alerts to ensure you are notified
    • Offer you a free trial of newly created or updated content
    • Host webinars with compliance experts to explain the changes and how our training supports your ongoing compliance

Can you translate our content into other languages?

Yes, we offer translations in a wide range of languages. Let us know your needs, and we’ll confirm availability or work with you to plan translations for your selected modules.

What file types are supported by the Skillcast system?

Features

Supported file types and details

File Exchange

File types: PDF, Excel spreadsheets, Word documents, SCORM and xAPI files, and compressed zip files. Max file size: Default is 1GB, can be increased to a max of 2GB

SCORM files

Versions: SCORM 1.2, SCORM 1.2 for Moodle, SCORM 2004 2nd, 3rd and 4th Edition. Max file size: 1024MB

xAPI file

Max file size: 2GB

Videos

File types: MP4 or MOV. Videos must be optimised, with a max file size of 100MB. If the file is bigger, our Design Team can help

Images

File types: jpg, png and gif. The file size should ideally be 100KB, but it can be up to 250KB

CPD evidence

File types: Word, PDF, Excel and CSV. File size: the limit should be whatever the portal config option is set to. Servers are set to max 2GB

Policy documents

PDF or Word File size: the limit should be whatever the portal config option is set to. Servers are set to max 2GB

Offline activities evidence

File types: PDF, DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, CSV, PNG, GIF, JPEG, JPG, PPTX and MSG. File size: the limit should be whatever the portal config option is set to. Servers are set to max 2GB

Client logo files

File types provided by client: EPS, PDF, AI and SVG

Registers

PDF, DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, CSV, PPT, PPTX, POT, PPA, PPS, JPG, JPEG, PJEPG, PNG, BMP, GIF, MP4, MOV, WMV, CPTX, CP, TXT, ZIP and MSG files

Declarations

JPG, JPEG, PNG, GIF, XLS and XLSX files