On Jun. 26, UK GVT introduced amendments to enterprise act 2002.
UK GVT published the Enterprise act 2002 (amendment of section 58 considerations) order 2025 (StIn 2025/737), alongside an explanatory memorandum.
Follows UK GVT Nov. 2024 proposed media merger law for digital age, see #232484.
Overview
Enterprise act 2002 (definition of newspaper) order 2025 and Enterprise act (amendment of section 58 considerations) order 2025 introduce changes to Part 3 of the Enterprise act 2002 in relation to mergers involving newspapers and broadcasters.
Changes affect scope of standard public interest and special public interest media merger regimes in Chs 2 and 3 of Pt 3 and Foreign state influence regime in Ch 3A.
Part 3 of the act establishes the UK’s merger control regime.
Chapter 3A of Part 3 establishes the FSI regime which prohibits foreign states from acquiring control or influence over the policy of UK newspapers and news magazines.
The Definition of newspaper order 2025 amends the definition of newspaper in section 44(10) of the Act for the purposes of merger control regimes in Part 3.
Articles 4 to 7 make amendments to Act and to the Enterprise and regulatory reform act 2013 (c. 24) which are consequential upon the changes made by arts 2 and 3.
