Limitation period for competition complaints may bar late filings unless the commission records reasons and condones delay. Amendments to section 19 establish a limitation period preventing the Commission from entertaining information or references filed after the prescribed period unless the Commission records reasons and finds sufficient cause to condone delay. The amendments remove a reference to hindering market entry, replace 'accrual of benefits' with 'benefits or harm,' and add factors for assessment including characteristics of goods or nature of services, costs of switching supply or demand, switching costs between goods or services, and categories of customers, expanding the Commission's market-definition and effects framework.
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Limitation period for competition complaints may bar late filings unless the commission records reasons and condones delay.
Amendments to section 19 establish a limitation period preventing the Commission from entertaining information or references filed after the prescribed period unless the Commission records reasons and finds sufficient cause to condone delay. The amendments remove a reference to hindering market entry, replace "accrual of benefits" with "benefits or harm," and add factors for assessment including characteristics of goods or nature of services, costs of switching supply or demand, switching costs between goods or services, and categories of customers, expanding the Commission's market-definition and effects framework.
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