ABSTRACT

The purpose of this article is to examine the challenges that Brexit brings for the devolution of certain aspects of competition policy to Scotland. According to section 63 of the Scotland Act 2016, Scottish Ministers can ask the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to carry out a phase 2 market investigation after having sought the agreement of their Westminster counterparts. This article will explore the consequences of Brexit for competition policy in the UK by placing the discussion against the broader background of the relationship existing between the central and devolved governments in the UK, with a particular emphasis on Scotland. After discussing, the nature and scope of the powers that have been devolved to the Scottish Government the article will examine the impact of Brexit on competition policy both in general and for these devolved aspects. It will be argued that the current system for the management of the inter-governmental relations between Westminster and Edinburgh may not be able to withstand the challenges brought by Brexit and affecting the role of the CMA and of the UK Government, respectively, in the fields of antitrust, state aid, and merger control.The article will conclude that Brexit has exposed how the current framework for intergovernmental relations may not be suitable to the demands of new forms of devolution that are not predicated upon the distinction between reserved and devolved matters, but depend on the joint decision-making between the UK and the Scottish governments. Thus, unless section 63 of the Scotland Act 2016 is to remain ineffective, it may become necessary to rethink the current ways in which Scottish and UK minister interact in areas where devolution means co-decision as opposed to one government ‘giving way’ to the other.

中文翻译：

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英国脱欧后，根据《 2016年苏格兰法令》将竞争政策下放：在当前定居点的边缘紧张吗？

摘要

本文旨在探讨英国退欧带来的挑战，即将竞争政策的某些方面下放给苏格兰。根据《 2016年苏格兰法令》第63条的规定，苏格兰部长可在征求威斯敏斯特同僚的同意后，要求竞争与市场管理局（CMA）进行第二阶段的市场调查。本文将通过在英国中央政府与下放政府之间的关系的更广泛背景下进行讨论来探讨英国退欧对英国竞争政策的影响，特别是苏格兰。经过讨论，移交给苏格兰政府的权力的性质和范围，本文将研究英国退欧对竞争政策的总体影响以及这些权力下放方面的影响。有人认为，威斯敏斯特和爱丁堡之间的政府间关系管理的现行体系可能无法承受英国退欧带来的挑战，并分别影响到CMA和英国政府在该领域的作用本文将得出结论，英国脱欧暴露了当前的政府间关系框架可能不适合新的权力下放需求，而这种权力下放并不取决于保留和转移的事务之间的区别，但取决于英国和苏格兰政府之间的联合决策。因此，除非《 2016年苏格兰法令》第63条继续无效，否则有必要重新考虑苏格兰和英国大臣在权力下放意味着共同决策而不是一个政府为政府“做出决定”的领域进行互动的当前方式。其他。