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...
Central Government, in public interest, hereby exempts the ‘Group’ exercising less than fifty per cent. of voting rights in other enterprise from the provisions of section 5 of the said Act for a period of five years with effect from the date of publication of this notification in the official gazette.
In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (a) of section 54 of the Competition Act, 2002 (12 of 2003), the Central Government, in public interest, hereby exempts an enterprise, whose control, shares, voting rights or assets are being acquired has either assets of the value of not more than rupees three hundred and fifty crores in India
Technology Market refers to market platforms driven by new technologies, shrouding over the age-old market platforms. With the advent of e-commerce facilities selling, purchasing, hiring of any goods and services is seen to be in the hands of the consumers.
India adopted a new economic order in the early 1990s. This empowered the invisible hands of the market, namely, demand for and supply of goods and services to determine two major outcomes, namely, quantities to be produced/supplied in the economy and prices at which these are to be exchanged. The invisible hands may occasionally malfunction in the presence of information asymmetry, externalities or market power.
We have understood the concepts and some important definition under the Competition Act, 2002. As we have considered the charging provisions of Sections 3 and 4, we have learned that the main object of the act is to promote competition and restrict any activities by any entity or group of entities to restrict competition in the market.
In my earlier article we have understood the basics of the Competition Act, 2002. In this article we are going to understand provisions of Section 4 of the Competition Act, 2002, which deals with the Dominant Enterprises, Dominance and abuse of dominant position the act.
Every law promulgated by any legislature is based on certain reason, belief and welfare of the society. The laws will provide us social security from exploitations, whether it will be physical or social. For development of a society and economy it is essential that there should be free competition among players. Every player in the market will get adequate space and time to participate and put their products or services before the people.
MINISTRY OF CORPORATE AFFAIRS NOTIFICATION New Delhi, the 15th October, 2014 G.S.R. 728(E).—In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (mb) of sub-section (2) of section 63 read with sub-section (2) of Section 53E of the Competition Act, 2002 (12 of 2003), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules to amend the Competition Appellate […]
The principal rules were published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part-II, Section 3, Sub-section (i) dated 27th February, 2008, vide G.S.R. No.111(E) and amended vide G.S.R. No. 156(E), dated 6th March, 2009 and G.S.R. No. 259(E), dated 20th April, 2009.
Amendment to Combination Regulations- 28thMarch 2014 The provisions of the Competition Act, 2002 (“Act”) relating to the regulation of combinations as well as the Combination Regulations have been in force with effect from 1stJune 2011. The Combination Regulations were amended twice on 23rd February 2012 and 4th April 2013, with a view to relax filing […]
