{"id":265541,"date":"2023-10-20T19:18:40","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T13:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=265541"},"modified":"2023-10-20T19:18:40","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T13:48:40","slug":"cci-issues-draft-of-leniency-plus-norms-to-curb-cartelisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/cci-issues-draft-of-leniency-plus-norms-to-curb-cartelisation\/","title":{"rendered":"CCI issues draft of \u2018leniency plus\u2019 norms to curb cartelisation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201cCCI issues draft of \u2018leniency plus\u2019 norms to curb cartelisation\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>\u201cHindu Businessline\u201d on 20th October 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has released draft regulations under the \u2018leniency-plus\u2019 regime.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is a Leniency Programme?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Leniency programme allows companies that provide sufficient information about a cartel in which they have participated to receive partial immunity from penalty.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Such a programme helps competition authorities to discover secret cartels and to obtain insider evidence of the infringement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Leniency programme is provided under the Competition Act 2002.Under this, Competition Commission of India (CCI) may impose a lesser penalty on a person involved in a cartel if such person has made a full and true disclosure in respect of alleged violations and such disclosure is vital.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is Leniency plus Programme?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Leniency plus regime was introduced in the Competition (Amendment) Act, 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this regime, a cartel member cooperating with the Competition Commission of India (CCI) for leniency can reveal the existence of another unrelated cartel during the original leniency proceedings.In return, they receive an additional reduction in penalties.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This strategy is proactive in enforcing antitrust laws and aims to encourage companies already under investigation for one cartel to report other cartels unknown to the competition regulator.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is Cartel?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A cartel is a collection of independent businesses or organizations that collude to manipulate the price of a product or service.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cartels are competitors in the same industry and seek to reduce that competition by controlling pricing in agreement with one another.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tactics used by cartels include reduction of supply, price-fixing, collusive bidding, and market carving.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The actions of cartels hurt consumers through increased prices and lack of transparency.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cCCI issues draft of \u2018leniency plus\u2019 norms to curb cartelisation\u201d published in \u201cHindu Businessline\u201d on 20th October 2023 What is the News? The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has released draft regulations under the \u2018leniency-plus\u2019 regime. What is a Leniency Programme? The Leniency programme allows companies that&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/cci-issues-draft-of-leniency-plus-norms-to-curb-cartelisation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CCI issues draft of \u2018leniency plus\u2019 norms to curb cartelisation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1731,1760,1],"tags":[11872,10720],"class_list":["post-265541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-bill-and-acts","category-polity-and-nation","category-uncategorized","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-hindu-businessline","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":52,"cached_at":1698370548,"cached_date":1698414488},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}