Dear Readers
Apologies for the recent lull in activity on this blog. This can be partly attributed to Anshuman and I being extremely busy with work and partly to the relative inactivity within the CCI in the past month. As a new competition body, the CCI's work load is bound to ebb and flow and I must say there has been more ebb than flow in the last month. After the record breaking fine in the cement cartel case, there really haven't been any 'blog-worthy' happenings in Indian competition law.
Recently, however a news report caught my eye due to a personal interest in the case. The CCI is investigating into an alleged abuse of dominance by car manufacturers who supply spare parts only to authorized dealers who then sell them on at higher rates. (news article can be accessed here) My personal interest (nothing too serious of course) is that I was an intern at the law firm advising one of the car manufacturers when the complaint was first filed and had dug up quite a bit of research on the matter. Without giving away too much (lest I be sued for breach of confidentiality) all I can say is that the case is bound to throw up some interesting questions about the markets for spare parts and their relationship with the primary market (i.e cars), and whether a firm can be dominant in the market for its own spare parts. These questions have of course already arisen and much discussed in the EU and the US. It will be interesting to see how the CCI will handle these questions.
Apologies for the recent lull in activity on this blog. This can be partly attributed to Anshuman and I being extremely busy with work and partly to the relative inactivity within the CCI in the past month. As a new competition body, the CCI's work load is bound to ebb and flow and I must say there has been more ebb than flow in the last month. After the record breaking fine in the cement cartel case, there really haven't been any 'blog-worthy' happenings in Indian competition law.
Recently, however a news report caught my eye due to a personal interest in the case. The CCI is investigating into an alleged abuse of dominance by car manufacturers who supply spare parts only to authorized dealers who then sell them on at higher rates. (news article can be accessed here) My personal interest (nothing too serious of course) is that I was an intern at the law firm advising one of the car manufacturers when the complaint was first filed and had dug up quite a bit of research on the matter. Without giving away too much (lest I be sued for breach of confidentiality) all I can say is that the case is bound to throw up some interesting questions about the markets for spare parts and their relationship with the primary market (i.e cars), and whether a firm can be dominant in the market for its own spare parts. These questions have of course already arisen and much discussed in the EU and the US. It will be interesting to see how the CCI will handle these questions.
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