IAAF has released its initial response on Competition and Market Authority’s (CMA’s) final Motor Vehicle Block Exemption Order (MVBEO) recommendations.
IAAF Chief Executive, Mark Field, said: “On first reading of the CMA’s final MV-BEO recommendations, it’s clear and positive that they have listened and noted many of the main arguments outlined by IAAF / UK AFCAR, but the recommendations have yet to explain how the key issue of access to in-vehicle data could be provided.
“There are also many references in the report to EU related requirements, and we will monitor these closely, so as to avoid regulatory divergence.
“The question of what secondary vehicle type approval legislation will exist within the UK is still very much open. There is a six-year period while the EU and the CMA ‘wait and see’ what the impact on the aftermarket will be, but this is also related to what other (i.e. type approval) legislation will be introduced.”
