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2022 CLD 525 COMPETITION COMMISSION OF PAKISTAN
SHOW CAUSE NOTICE ISSUED TO WEIGHT LOSS PRODUCTS MANUFACTURING COMPANIES VS S. 30---Proceedings in cases of contravention---Scope---Competition Commission is empowered to initiate proceedings under S. 30 of the Competition Act, 2010 in rela…
2022 CLD 525 COMPETITION COMMISSION OF PAKISTAN
SHOW CAUSE NOTICE ISSUED TO WEIGHT LOSS PRODUCTS MANUFACTURING COMPANIES VS S. 10---Deceptive marketing practices---Puffery---Scope---High sounding claims such as "100% safe and natural" and "lose up to 7-8 kgs fat from tummy, hips, thighs,…
2022 CLD 525 COMPETITION COMMISSION OF PAKISTAN
SHOW CAUSE NOTICE ISSUED TO WEIGHT LOSS PRODUCTS MANUFACTURING COMPANIES VS S. 10---Deceptive marketing practices---Puffery---Scope---Claim, "reduce 20-30 lb weight immediately by using the capsule twice a day" is a claim, which is measurab…
2022 CLD 670 COMPETITION COMMISSION OF PAKISTAN
SHOW CAUSE NOTICES ISSUED TO DEL ELECTRONICS (PVT.) LIMITED AND ANOTHER VS Ss. 4, 5 & 9---Prohibited agreements---Individual exemptions---Criteria for individual and block exemptions---Scope---'By object' restriction under S. 4 of the Compe…
2022 CLD 670 COMPETITION COMMISSION OF PAKISTAN
SHOW CAUSE NOTICES ISSUED TO DEL ELECTRONICS (PVT.) LIMITED AND ANOTHER VS S. 30---Proceedings in case of contravention---Supply of documents---Scope---Respondent filed application for information/ documents relating to authorization/delega…
2022 CLD 670 COMPETITION COMMISSION OF PAKISTAN
SHOW CAUSE NOTICES ISSUED TO DEL ELECTRONICS (PVT.) LIMITED AND ANOTHER VS Ss. 4 & 2(k)---Prohibited agreements---Relevant market---Geographic market---Scope---Respondent contended with respect to the relevant geographic market that marketi…
2022 CLD 670 COMPETITION COMMISSION OF PAKISTAN
SHOW CAUSE NOTICES ISSUED TO DEL ELECTRONICS (PVT.) LIMITED AND ANOTHER VS S. 4---Prohibited agreements---Resale price maintenance---Scope---Competition Commission initiated an inquiry into contravention of S. 4 of the Competition Act, 2010…
2022 CLD 670 COMPETITION COMMISSION OF PAKISTAN
SHOW CAUSE NOTICES ISSUED TO DEL ELECTRONICS (PVT.) LIMITED AND ANOTHER VS S. 4---Prohibited agreements---Resale price maintenance---Scope---Competition Commission initiated an inquiry into contravention of S. 4 of the Competition Act, 2010…
2022 CLD 670 COMPETITION COMMISSION OF PAKISTAN
SHOW CAUSE NOTICES ISSUED TO DEL ELECTRONICS (PVT.) LIMITED AND ANOTHER VS Ss. 4 & 2(k)---Prohibited agreements---Relevant market---Product market---Scope---Respondent disputed the definition of the relevant market in the Enquiry Report sta…
2022 CLD 670 COMPETITION COMMISSION OF PAKISTAN
SHOW CAUSE NOTICES ISSUED TO DEL ELECTRONICS (PVT.) LIMITED AND ANOTHER VS S. 28---Functions and powers of the Commission---Scope---Commission is not merely a consumer protection regulatory body---Competition issues of any sector in the eco…
2022 CLD 670 COMPETITION COMMISSION OF PAKISTAN
SHOW CAUSE NOTICES ISSUED TO DEL ELECTRONICS (PVT.) LIMITED AND ANOTHER VS S. 4---Prohibited agreements---Resale price maintenance---Scope---Resale price maintenance arrangement is considered to be an agreement/concerted practice for the pu…
2022 CLD 670 COMPETITION COMMISSION OF PAKISTAN
SHOW CAUSE NOTICES ISSUED TO DEL ELECTRONICS (PVT.) LIMITED AND ANOTHER VS S. 33---Qanun-e-Shahadat (10 of 1984), Art. 133---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 175---Powers of the Commission in relation to a proceeding or enquiry---Cross-examin…
2022 CLD 790 COMPETITION COMMISSION OF PAKISTAN
VS "Opinion"---Meaning---One's feelings or thoughts about someone or something, rather than a fact.
2022 CLD 790 COMPETITION COMMISSION OF PAKISTAN
VS S. 37--- Enquiry--- Expression 'prima facie evidence'---Scope---Evidence sufficient to give rise to a presumption of the presence of a contravention of the Competition Act, 2010 and is distinct from the evidence required to prove a contr…
2022 CLD 790 COMPETITION COMMISSION OF PAKISTAN
VS Prima facie---Connotation---Scope---Sufficient to establish a fact or raise a presumption unless disproved or rebutted; based on what seems to be true on first examination, even though it may later be proved to be untrue.
2022 CLD 790 COMPETITION COMMISSION OF PAKISTAN
VS S. 4--- Prohibited agreements--- Concession agreement---Scope---Complainant made a complaint against the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) and three companies (respondents) that they were engaged in anti-competitive activities as the CAA ha…
2022 CLD 790 COMPETITION COMMISSION OF PAKISTAN
VS Ss. 35(3) & 37---Competition Commission Enquiry (Conduct of Investigating Officers) Rules, 2007, R. 4---Enquiry---Forcible entry---Procedure of the enquiry---Scope---Where the respondents while placing reliance on R. 4, of the Competitio…
2022 CLD 790 COMPETITION COMMISSION OF PAKISTAN
VS Nova Constitutio Futuris Formam Imponere Debet, Non Praeteritis---Scope---New law ought to regulate what is to follow, not the past, unless it was given retrospective operation either by express or necessary implication of the legislatur…
2022 CLD 790 COMPETITION COMMISSION OF PAKISTAN
VS Ss. 5, 8 & 9---Individual exemption---Block exemption procedure---Criteria for individual and block exemptions--- Concession agreements---Scope---Competition Commission recognizes the necessity of concession agreements in terms of mega-p…
2022 CLD 790 COMPETITION COMMISSION OF PAKISTAN
VS S. 2(k)---Relevant market---Scope---Objective of defining the relevant market is to identify both the product and areas within which businesses are competing with each other, this helps in the determination of market share for purposes o…
2022 CLD 790 COMPETITION COMMISSION OF PAKISTAN
VS Prima facie case---Connotation---Scope---Existence of legal right which should appear to a prudent mind with a probability of success at the end of the day.
2022 CLD 790 COMPETITION COMMISSION OF PAKISTAN
VS adversarial and non-adversarial system---Scope---adversarial and non-adversarial systems incorporate a wide range of variations---adversarial system aims to ascertain the truth through open competition between the litigants, furthermore…
2022 CLD 790 COMPETITION COMMISSION OF PAKISTAN
VS "Concession agreement"--- Meaning--- Scope--- 'Concession agreement' generally refers to an agreement between a government authority and a private entity, through which the government grants certain rights to the private entity for a lim…
2022 CLD 790 COMPETITION COMMISSION OF PAKISTAN
VS S. 37---Enquiry---Public interest litigation---Scope---Legislature in all its wisdom has declared that the proceedings before the Commission are public interest proceedings---Public interest proceedings are always inquisitorial in nature…
2022 CLD 790 COMPETITION COMMISSION OF PAKISTAN
VS Every statute is presumed to be prospective in nature.
2022 CLD 790 COMPETITION COMMISSION OF PAKISTAN
VS arts. 4 & 5---Rights of individuals to be dealt in accordance with law---Loyalty to state and obedience to Constitution and law---Scope---Rights and duties are two sides of the same coin, meaning that they both go side by side---any righ…
2022 CLD 790 COMPETITION COMMISSION OF PAKISTAN
VS S. 62 & Chap. II [Ss. 3 to 11]---Validation of actions---Prohibition of abuse of dominant position, certain agreements and deceptive marketing practices---Retrospective effect---Scope ---Section 62 clarifies that any such matter, action…
2022 CLD 790 COMPETITION COMMISSION OF PAKISTAN
VS S. 37--- Enquiry--- Scope--- Opinion of the Commission under S. 37(2) of the act is a tentative estimation of the prima facie evidence/material cited by the complainant in the complaint, which in turn gives rise to a presumption of a con…
2022 CLD 790 COMPETITION COMMISSION OF PAKISTAN
VS Chap. II [Ss. 3 to 11]---Prohibition of abuse of dominant position, certain agreements and deceptive marketing practices---Scope---Competition Commission is mandated to prohibit and rectify any instance in which the realm of freedom of t…
2022 CLD 859 COMPETITION COMMISSION OF PAKISTAN
KENNOL PETROLEUM (PVT.) LIMITED AND OTHERS VS S. 10--- Deceptive marketing practices--- Scope--- Marketers traditionally focus on designing advertising campaigns and other promotional strategies to promote a brand name, however, with evolvi…
2022 CLD 859 COMPETITION COMMISSION OF PAKISTAN
KENNOL PETROLEUM (PVT.) LIMITED AND OTHERS VS S. 10---Deceptive marketing practices---Vicarious liability---Scope---Undertakings in the market should be vigilant and considerate of their distributors or employees acting on their behalf, the…
2022 CLD 859 COMPETITION COMMISSION OF PAKISTAN
KENNOL PETROLEUM (PVT.) LIMITED AND OTHERS VS S. 10--- Deceptive marketing practices--- Fraudulent use of trademark---Scope---Respondents were alleged to have fraudulently used the complainant's trademark---Validity---Pictorial comparison o…
2022 CLD 859 COMPETITION COMMISSION OF PAKISTAN
KENNOL PETROLEUM (PVT.) LIMITED AND OTHERS VS S. 10---Deceptive marketing practices---Scope---Clause (d) of S. 10 of the Competition Act, 2010 provides protection to trademarks of undertakings against fraudulent use by other undertakings---…
2022 CLD 1068 COMPETITION COMMISSION OF PAKISTAN
PAKISTAN SUGAR MILLS ASSOCIATION (PSMA) AND MEMBER UNDERTAKINGS VS S. 4--- Prohibited agreements---Exchange of commercially sensitive information--- Sharing stock information--- Scope--- Competition Commission issued show cause notice to th…
2022 CLD 1068 COMPETITION COMMISSION OF PAKISTAN
PAKISTAN SUGAR MILLS ASSOCIATION (PSMA) AND MEMBER UNDERTAKINGS VS S. 34--- Competition (General Enforcement) Regulations, 2007, Reglns. 2(1)(g) & 26A---Power to enter and search premises---Taking of evidence---Scope---Undertakings argued t…
2022 CLD 1068 COMPETITION COMMISSION OF PAKISTAN
PAKISTAN SUGAR MILLS ASSOCIATION (PSMA) AND MEMBER UNDERTAKINGS VS S. 30---Qanun-e-Shahadat (10 of 1984), Arts. 1(2) & 165---Proceedings in case of contravention---Qanun-e-Shahadat, 1984 to override other laws---Standard of proof---Burden o…
2022 CLD 1068 COMPETITION COMMISSION OF PAKISTAN
PAKISTAN SUGAR MILLS ASSOCIATION (PSMA) AND MEMBER UNDERTAKINGS VS Ss. 4 & 2(1)(b)---Prohibited agreements---Agreement---Scope---Term agreement used in S. 4 has a very wide scope---As per the definition given in S. 2(1)(b), the term "agreem…
2022 CLD 1068 COMPETITION COMMISSION OF PAKISTAN
PAKISTAN SUGAR MILLS ASSOCIATION (PSMA) AND MEMBER UNDERTAKINGS VS "Mobile device"---Meaning.
2022 CLD 1068 COMPETITION COMMISSION OF PAKISTAN
PAKISTAN SUGAR MILLS ASSOCIATION (PSMA) AND MEMBER UNDERTAKINGS VS S. 4---Prohibited agreement---Expression 'decision'---Scope---Label of 'decision' is not pertinent and even a letter, rules or recommendation may be considered as 'decision'…
2022 CLD 1068 COMPETITION COMMISSION OF PAKISTAN
PAKISTAN SUGAR MILLS ASSOCIATION (PSMA) AND MEMBER UNDERTAKINGS VS S. 4---Prohibited agreement---Exchange of commercially sensitive information---Scope---Information exchange is genuinely public if it makes the exchanged data equally access…
2022 CLD 1068 COMPETITION COMMISSION OF PAKISTAN
PAKISTAN SUGAR MILLS ASSOCIATION (PSMA) AND MEMBER UNDERTAKINGS VS Ss. 30 & 4---Proceedings in case of contravention---Prohibited agreements---Standard of proof---Scope---Undertakings argued that the burden of proof is on the Commission to…
2022 CLD 1068 COMPETITION COMMISSION OF PAKISTAN
PAKISTAN SUGAR MILLS ASSOCIATION (PSMA) AND MEMBER UNDERTAKINGS VS Ss. 4 & 2(1)(b)---Prohibited agreement---Agreement---Scope---Term 'agreement' as conceived under the Act is very broad and encompasses the 'entering into' any/or all practic…
2022 CLD 1068 COMPETITION COMMISSION OF PAKISTAN
PAKISTAN SUGAR MILLS ASSOCIATION (PSMA) AND MEMBER UNDERTAKINGS VS Ss. 33 & 37---Powers of the Competition Commission in relation to a proceeding or enquiry---Enquiries and studies---Scope---No mandatory legal obligation exists on the part…
2022 CLD 1068 COMPETITION COMMISSION OF PAKISTAN
PAKISTAN SUGAR MILLS ASSOCIATION (PSMA) AND MEMBER UNDERTAKINGS VS S. 4---Prohibited agreement---Association of undertakings---Scope---By being a member of an Association, an undertaking is deemed to have accepted its constitution and to ha…
2022 CLD 1068 COMPETITION COMMISSION OF PAKISTAN
PAKISTAN SUGAR MILLS ASSOCIATION (PSMA) AND MEMBER UNDERTAKINGS VS S. 28---Functions and powers of the Commission---Scope---It is not duty of the Competition Commission to address the objections raised as to the constitutionality and validi…
2022 CLD 1068 COMPETITION COMMISSION OF PAKISTAN
PAKISTAN SUGAR MILLS ASSOCIATION (PSMA) AND MEMBER UNDERTAKINGS VS S. 4---Prohibited agreement---Exchange of commercially sensitive information---Scope---Information exchanges among competitors may fall into three different scenarios; as a…
2022 CLD 1068 COMPETITION COMMISSION OF PAKISTAN
PAKISTAN SUGAR MILLS ASSOCIATION (PSMA) AND MEMBER UNDERTAKINGS VS S. 30---Proceedings in case of contravention---Standard of proof---Burden of proof---Scope---Undertakings argued that the burden of proof is on the Commission to establish t…
2022 CLD 1068 COMPETITION COMMISSION OF PAKISTAN
PAKISTAN SUGAR MILLS ASSOCIATION (PSMA) AND MEMBER UNDERTAKINGS VS S. 4---Prohibited agreement---Exchange of commercially sensitive information---Factors to be considered while assessing compatibility of exchange of information, detailed.
2022 CLD 1068 COMPETITION COMMISSION OF PAKISTAN
PAKISTAN SUGAR MILLS ASSOCIATION (PSMA) AND MEMBER UNDERTAKINGS VS Ss. 4 & 2(1)(k)--- Prohibited agreements---Relevant market---Scope---Defining the relevant market is not essential for the application of S. 4 of the Competition Act, 2010--…
2022 CLD 1068 COMPETITION COMMISSION OF PAKISTAN
PAKISTAN SUGAR MILLS ASSOCIATION (PSMA) AND MEMBER UNDERTAKINGS VS S. 4---Prohibited agreement---Scope---Provisions and language of S. 4(1) read with S. 4(2)(e) do not capture mere exchange of information between competitors---In order to f…

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