The Chinese Competition Authority publishes new procedural rules for non-merger investigations

Wang, Peter J.; Zhang, Yizhe; Harris, Stephen

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5 Jun 2009

The Chinese Competition Authority publishes new procedural rules for non-merger investigations

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Chinese Competition Authority, Procedural Rules for Investigating and Handling Cases Relating to Monopoly Agreements and Abuse of Dominance Cases, 5 June 2009 (Chinese & English)

On June 5, 2009, the PRC State Administration of Industry and Commerce (« SAIC ») published two new sets of procedural rules to implement the Chinese Anti-Monopoly Law (« AML »). One set of rules deals with procedures for the investigation and handling of cases involving monopoly agreements and abuses of dominant market position. The other specifies procedures for investigation and handling of administrative monopolies. Both take effect on July 1, 2009. Although it has been ten months since the AML came into effect on August 1, 2008, SAIC has not taken any formal or public actions under the AML, despite rumors that it already has received more than 1,000 complaints of anticompetitive conduct. Promulgation of these new procedural rules may herald the start of AML enforcement by SAIC. In

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Peter J. Wang
Jones Day (Shanghai)

China 51 contributions 23330 visits
Yizhe Zhang
Jones Day (Beijing)

China 44 contributions 20274 visits
Stephen Harris
Winston & Strawn (Washington)

United States 27 contributions 23047 visits

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Peter J. Wang, Yizhe Zhang, Stephen Harris, The Chinese Competition Authority publishes new procedural rules for non-merger investigations, 5 June 2009, e-Competitions June 2009, Art. N° 33787

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