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Digital rules? Not EU's wayIndia's Competition Act, amended in 2023, provides a flexible framework for addressing anti-competitive conduct in the digital economy, neg...
Digital Competition Law unlikely before second half of FY26The Indian government is delaying the finalization of a digital competition law until the latter half of the next fiscal year. Extensive in...
Draft Digital Competition Bill: government may hold new round of discussions with stakeholdersA final draft of the Digital Competition Bill will be released after perusal of stakeholder comments and the suggestions received by variou...
MeitY may ask MCA to keep ex-ante out of Digital Competition Bill for nowThe Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology advises excluding the ex-ante provision from the Digital Competition Bill. Stakehold...
MeitY to discuss digital competition bill draft with industry associationsThe government is holding meetings to address concerns about the draft Digital Competition Bill, which proposes obligations for big tech co...
Draft digital competition bill will make business untenable: IAMAIEx-ante regimes tell businesses precisely how to behave, or what to do. Under the current ex-post regime of the Competition Act, companies ...
Need time to study impact of proposed digital competition law, say tech policy advocacy groups21 organisations urge a 5-month extension from the government for insights on the Digital Competition Bill draft, emphasizing the alignment...
ETtech Explainer: Why does X support proposed digital competition law while Meta, Google, Apple oppose it?The Committee on Digital Competition Law (CDCL), formed by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, had on Tuesday proposed a new digital competi...
New antitrust law for large tech firms shouldn’t stifle innovation: expertsZomato, Swiggy, Flipkart and Oyo have opposed the new regulations on digital competition proposed by a government-appointed committee. Indi...
ETtech Explainer: What the proposed digital competition law looks to regulateThe Ministry of Corporate Affairs' Committee on Digital Competition Law has advocated for a novel legal framework to govern competition in ...
Big Tech, few Indian entities oppose ex-ante regulation under new law; others lend their supportDigital firms including Apple, Google, Meta, Amazon, Flipkart, and Uber resisted ex-ante obligations under a new digital competition law. S...
Ensuring fair trade rules in digital markets and emerging areas like AI, biotech a challenge: MCA secyThe ministry is piloting discussions on having a digital competition law and a committee set up for the purpose has held a series of consul...
AI, gig economy pose challenges for competition law: MCA Secretary Manoj GovilWhile delivering the valedictory address at the BRICS International Competition Conference in the national capital, Ministry of Corporate A...
CDCL: India must adopt an evidence-based approach that gives weight to its realitiesSeveral jurisdictions, including the EU, Britain, Japan and Australia, are designing or implementing ex ante proposals to regulate the busi...
IAMAI submits final recommendations to CDCL amid accusations of bias towards Big TechIn the final submission, the IAMAI has argued against the prescription of ex-ante regulations, saying that ex ante measures "may limit grow...
Regulating digital platforms CCI's big challenge, says retiring chairman Ashok Kumar GuptaIn fast-moving digital markets, protracted litigations and delayed interventions could prove to be "expensive or even futile", he said, mak...
CCI has been pragmatic in levying, quantifying penalties: ChairpersonThe Competition Commission of India (CCI) has been taking steps to ensure fair competition in the digital market and last Thursday, it pass...