The OFT published a report today on competition compliance and deterrence resulting from the UK competition regime. The study was conducted by London Economics and included a survey of more than 500 large companies and 300 SMEs, as well as a small survey of specialist competition advisers in law firms.

The research shows that sanctions and enforcement in the UK have a substantial deterrent effect. For each completed competition enforcement case, up to 40 potential competition law infringements are deterred.