Competition Law training from CityLearning is built around a set of compliance learning objectives to ensure your staff comply with competition law.

After completing this online training course, you will be able to:

Module 1: The Basics

• give an overview of competition law.
• describe anti-competitive agreements.
• define abuse of a dominant position.

Module 2: Enforcing the Law

• explain the role of the relevant regulator(s), for example, the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) in Ireland.
• summarise how competition law is enforced.
• list your company’s policies and guidelines governing the correct approach to competition law.

Module 3: Considerations for Companies

• discuss why the effects of an agreement are as important as its purpose.
• define vertical and horizontal agreements.
• outline the considerations that are relevant to avoiding breaches of the legislation.
• distinguish permitted forms of cooperation between firms.

Competition Law from CityLearning covers your obligations under the relevant legislation, such as the European Competition Network (ECN)+ Directive (2019) or the UK’s Competition Act 1998. It explains that competition law aims to protect businesses and consumers from the effects of anti-competitive practices. This course introduces the relevant regulator(s) and their powers and explains how to cooperate with their investigations. It describes different types of agreements between companies and the anti-competitive effects they may have. It teaches your staff how to distinguish between permitted and prohibited forms of co-operation.

Competition Law ends in a 10-question course test. Learners must answer at least 8/10 questions correctly to pass the course. Their score will be automatically saved in CityLearning’s Learning Management System (LMS) CityREPORTs, so that compliance with competition law training requirements can easily be proven.  

Rigorous Testing: Spot questions are used throughout the course to increase user engagement; they either probe to expand on a learner’s existing knowledge of the subject matter or reinforce key learning points. Each module ends in a short quiz, and the course ends in a 10-question course test with an 80% pass mark. Questions in the course test are randomised from a choice of three so that learners may retake without getting the same questions.

Customised Content: CityLearning can customise Competition Law to suit your company’s competition law policies.

Accessibility: This course contains audio narration throughout.

Glossary of Terms: Unfamiliar terms are linked to this glossary when they are first used in the course. The glossary can be accessed at any time.

Multimedia Design: This course gets the message across with a mix of text, images, animation and video.

Interactive Content: We design our courses to keep learners engaged and thinking. Competition Law contains:

• navigational interactive elements, such as next/back buttons and icons that reveal more content once clicked.
• learning interactive elements, including scenario-based questions.

Modular Structure: This course is broken down into short modules that take less than 15 minutes to complete, so learners can easily finish this course at their own pace.

CityLearning enjoys a longstanding reputation for the highest quality course content. We are committed to continuous improvement and have a well-established Quality Assurance System in place to measure and enhance our performance.

All project personnel are highly experienced in developing generic, customised and bespoke eLearning solutions for our clients.

Our courses are regularly reviewed by Subject Matter Experts and thought leaders in the industry. The content is also reviewed by financial services regulatory consultants in the UK and a leading law firm in Ireland.

CityLearning has been creating eLearning compliance training courses for 25 years. Our courses have been accredited for Continuing Professional Development (CPD) by various bodies, including the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) in the UK and the Institute of Bankers (IOB), Life Insurance Association (LIA) and Insurance Institute of Ireland (III) in Ireland.