In December 2025 the Competition and Markets Authority fined Euro Car

Parks £473,000. Not for the tickets. For ignoring the regulator.

The CMA issued a legally binding information notice in July 2025 and

made seven separate attempts to get a response — registered post,

hand delivery, emails direct to the company's directors. Three months

of silence. Euro Car Parks later told the CMA it had blocked the

emails, believing them to be fraudulent. The CMA did not accept that

as a reasonable excuse, and set the penalty at 75% of the maximum —

the first fine ever issued under its new powers under the Digital

Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024.

I've spent 14 years on the driver's side of this fight. Forgive me a

moment of quiet satisfaction.

00:00 — £473, ...