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...
CCI finds the conduct and practice of Association of Malayalam Movie Artists (AMMA), Film Employees Federation of Kerala (FEFKA), FEFKA Director’s Union, FEFKA Production Executive’s Union and their five Office Bearers to be in contravention of the Competition Law. The Informant, T. G. Vinayakumar, a movie director, had approached CCI alleging anti-competitive conduct by the […]
Central Govt exempts Vessels Sharing Agreements of Liner Shipping Industry from provisions of section 3 of Competition Act, 2012 for a period of three months WEF 21.03.2017
1. COMPETITION COMPLIANCE COMPETITION COMPLIANCE PROGRAMME FOR ENTERPRISES A Suggested Framework for compliance of the Competition Act, 2002, [the Act] by Enterprises I. COMPLIANCE ARRANGEMENTS BY ENTERPRISES Meaning and Scope of Competition compliance Competition compliance programme (CCP) is a formal internal framework to ensure business, i.e., the management and individual employees, comply with competition law voluntarily. […]
An effective compliance programme includes creating awareness and imparting training to the employees who may engage themselves or are exposed to anti-competitive conducts. The programme should provide for identifying possible violations so as to take pro-active, corrective and remedial steps.
Introduction to Competition Law (Part – 5: Regulatory Bodies and Coordination between the Competition Commission of India (CCI) and Sectoral Regulator) 1. Regulatory Framework in India Before the opening up of the economy, economic activity was mainly dominated by the government-owned companies. Apart from economic activities government also controlled, most of the factors that determine the level […]
Introduction to Competition Law (Part – 4: Public Procurement Governments/PSUs) Public Procurement- Government/ PSUs 1. Background The Competition Act, 2002 (the ‘Act’) has been enacted with the objective of preventing practices having adverse effect on competition, promoting and sustaining competition in markets, protecting the interests of consumers and ensuring freedom of trade carried on by […]
Competition law simply enjoins the members, and their representatives at trade association meetings, to understand and appreciate the difference between legitimate association activity and anti-competitive practices.
The spirit of competition warrants continuous improvement in the existing market place where the efficient players push in-efficient players out of the market thereby promoting economic well-being of both the market participants and the consumers.
i. The Advocacy Division of the Commission will continuously scan and identify the upcoming / existing economic legislations and policies which may potentially have adverse effect on competition, for assessment; ii. Any Government Agency, including statutory authority, may refer any upcoming / existing economic legislation or policy to the Commission for competition assessment
Broadly, combination under the Act means acquisition of control, shares, voting rights or assets, acquisition of control by a person over an enterprise where such person has direct or indirect control over another enterprise engaged in competing businesses, and mergers and amalgamations between or amongst enterprises when the combining parties exceed the thresholds set in the Act.
