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This is a draft item of legislation. This draft has since been made as a UK Statutory Instrument: The Business Protection from Misleading Marketing Regulations 2008 No. 1276
4. Comparative advertising shall, as far as the comparison is concerned, be permitted only when the following conditions are met—
(a)it is not misleading under regulation 3;
(b)it is not a misleading action under regulation 5 of the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008(1) or a misleading omission under regulation 6 of those Regulations;
(c)it compares products meeting the same needs or intended for the same purpose;
(d)it objectively compares one or more material, relevant, verifiable and representative features of those products, which may include price;
(e)it does not create confusion among traders—
(i)between the advertiser and a competitor, or
(ii)between the trade marks, trade names, other distinguishing marks or products of the advertiser and those of a competitor;
(f)it does not discredit or denigrate the trade marks, trade names, other distinguishing marks, products, activities, or circumstances of a competitor;
(g)for products with designation of origin, it relates in each case to products with the same designation;
(h)it does not take unfair advantage of the reputation of a trade mark, trade name or other distinguishing marks of a competitor or of the designation of origin of competing products;
(i)it does not present products as imitations or replicas of products bearing a protected trade mark or trade name.
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