Corporate Law : The CCI held that dominance alone is insufficient to establish a violation under Section 4. The key takeaway is that actual or pot...
Corporate Law : This case examines whether borrowing costs should be capitalised using full-year borrowings or only those during the eligible peri...
Corporate Law : The Court’s 2025 ruling upheld CCI’s power to impose structural and personal penalties without a second notice, marking a majo...
Corporate Law : India is moving to regulate Big Tech's anti-competitive practices like predatory pricing, self-preferencing, and data misuse. A ne...
Corporate Law : This analysis reveals how exclusive airport retail concession agreements create monopolies, leading to unchecked high prices for p...
Corporate Law : The Competition Commission of India has proposed amendments to address administrative and procedural issues identified during impl...
Corporate Law : The proposed rules establish a comprehensive conduct framework for CCI employees, including integrity, conflict-of-interest contro...
Corporate Law : Parliament was informed that no antitrust or merger cases originated from Jammu and Kashmir during the year. The key takeaway is t...
Corporate Law : Enforcement activity rose with steady antitrust actions and quicker merger disposals, aided by reduced timelines and streamlined p...
Corporate Law : The competition watchdog has initiated further proceedings over widespread flight disruptions, signaling that the matter merits ex...
Corporate Law : CCI held no prima facie violation of Sections 3 or 4 as dominance, collusion, and anti-competitive agreements were not established...
Corporate Law : CCI held evidence did not prove mandatory NOC, PIS approvals or systematic boycott after compliance measures and closed the procee...
Corporate Law : The Commission examined allegations relating to one-sided agreements, rental suppression, and delayed payments in commercial real ...
Corporate Law : The Competition Commission found that truck associations collectively fixed freight charges beyond government-prescribed limits an...
Corporate Law : The dispute centred on whether the airport taxi operator had exclusive control over transportation services. The Commission relied...
Corporate Law : The CCI held that restricting warranty services in India to products bought from authorised distributors was unfair and discrimina...
Corporate Law : Summary of the Competition Commission of India (Determination of Cost of Production) Regulations, 2025. Details key changes, defin...
Corporate Law : The Competition Commission of India (CCI) notifies new regulations for recovering monetary penalties, detailing procedures for dem...
Corporate Law : CCI penalizes Meta ₹213.14 crore for abusing dominance through WhatsApp's 2021 Privacy Policy update. Cease-and-desist orders an...
Corporate Law : Clause (f) of Section 19 of the Competition Amendment Act 2023 comes into effect on 19th September 2024, as per the Ministry of Co...
COMPETITION COMMISSION OF INDIA Dated: 06.10.2020 Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for Virtual Hearings Authorized Representatives (Advocates/ Chartered Accountants/ Company Secretaries/ Cost Accountants) / Parties/ Parties-in-Person shall follow the following protocol for hearings through virtual mode: 1. For conducting hearings through Video Conferencing (VC), a URL would be sent through email in advance to one concerned […]
Supreme Court in a recent ruling has observed that in the Motor Accident Compensation Claims, that the children and family would also be authorized for compensation under ‘Loss of consortium’ in claims of Motor Accident under the Act.
It was often felt that in order to make the business bigger you need to invest a huge amount of capital into it. But in today’s era, businesses require something really astonishing and it suggests that businesses today become bigger not because of money but because of ideas and a marketing technique. Hence today while […]
Harshita Chawla Vs. WhatsApp Inc. & Facebook Inc. (Competition Commission of India) As regards the allegation of leveraging, the Commission does not agree with the Informant for reasons cited supra while dealing with the allegation under Section 4(2)(d) of the Act. The Informant has contended that WhatsApp will leverage its dominance in the upstream market […]
Merger of large companies in same industry is Anti-Competitive but merger of Vodafone & Idea is not (though merged entity will have highest market share in Wireless Telecom Market). Here’s why? Introduction: Reliance Jio, A company which brought digital revolution in India and has changed the composition of telecom industry which was originally having 11 […]
CCI has concluded that mere provision of services at free of cost by itself cannot be termed as Anti-Competitive unless the same is evidenced by dominant enterprise and an Anti-Competitive objective of excluding competition / competitors which does not seem to be the current scenario after considering relevant market and competitors
Relevant Section: Sections 4 & 5 of the Competition Act, 2002. Section 4 of the Competition act discussed about the Anti-Competitive Agreement. What is Anti-Competitive Agreement? 1. Any agreement entered into in contravention of the provisions of the Act, 2. Any agreement entered into between- i. enterprises or ii. Association of enterprises, or iii. Persons, or […]
Relevant Sections: Section 5 & 6 under the Competition Act, 2002. What is Combination? Section 5 of the Competition Act, 2002 Combination means- The acquisition of One or more enterprise by one or more persons, or Merger or Amalgamation of enterprise shall be a combination of such enterprises and persons or enterprises, if- Situation 1. Any […]
XYZ Vs Directorate of State Lotteries (Competition Commission of India) Competition Commission has closed a complaint alleging unfair business practices by the Directorate of State Lotteries, West Bengal, and West Bengal Lottery Stockists Syndicate. Full Text of the order of Competition Commission of India 1. The present Information has been filed by XYZ (‘the Informant’) […]
That the period of lockdown ordered by the Central Government and the State Governments including the period as may be extended either in whole or part of the country, where the registered office of the Corporate Debtor may be located
