Why Did the CMA Fine Euro Car Parks £473,000?
In December 2025 the Competition and Markets Authority decided to impose a £473,000 fixed penalty on Euro Car Parks Limited after concluding that the company had, without reasonable excuse, failed to comply with a statutory information notice.
The Competition and Markets Authority imposed a £473,000 penalty on Euro Car Parks Limited in December 2025 for failure, without reasonable excuse according to the regulator, to comply with a statutory information notice. Euro Car Parks has appealed the decision.
Under appeal
To obtain a response
As described by the CMA
Per the CMA's calculation
The sequence of events
This chronology is drawn from the CMA's published record and the High Court judgment. Where the account rests on the regulator's account of events, that is stated.
- 24 / 25 July 2025
The CMA issued Euro Car Parks with a statutory information notice. The information was required to enable the regulator to exercise, or consider exercising, its consumer-protection functions.
CMA action - 4 September 2025
Deadline for response. According to the CMA and the subsequent High Court judgment, Euro Car Parks did not provide the required response by the deadline.
Euro Car Parks - September – October 2025
The CMA says it made repeated attempts to obtain a response, including registered post, hand delivery, multiple emails, and communications directed to company directors — seven separate attempts in total.
CMA action - 21 October 2025
The CMA issued a Provisional Enforcement Notice proposing a £473,000 fixed penalty plus potential daily penalties.
CMA action - After 21 October 2025
Euro Car Parks responded and began supplying the requested information.
Euro Car Parks - 10 December 2025
Final Enforcement Notice issued. The final fixed penalty: £473,000. No daily penalty was ultimately imposed because the information had by then been provided.
CMA action
How the CMA says it tried to obtain a response
According to the regulator, the methods used to secure a response went well beyond a single letter.
The exact methods and numbering should be verified against the Final Enforcement Notice before relying on them. Read the original document for the regulator's own account.
An information-notice penalty, not a consumer-law finding
This penalty concerns the company's compliance with a legal demand for information. It is not a finding that Euro Car Parks breached consumer-protection law.
- A CMA finding that Euro Car Parks failed, without reasonable excuse, to comply with an information notice.
- A fixed financial penalty imposed under the regulator's statutory powers.
- A decision Euro Car Parks has the right to appeal — and has appealed.
- A finding that Euro Car Parks broke consumer-protection law.
- A criminal conviction.
- A confirmed payment — the penalty is under appeal and not payable until the appeal is determined, withdrawn, or the Court orders otherwise.