Electronic form recognition enables filings in hard or soft copy under amended competition commission regulations. The 2011 amendment to the Competition Commission of India (General) Regulations inserts a definition of 'Electronic form' aligning it with section 2(r) of the Information Technology Act, 2000, and revises regulation 21(1) to permit submissions as 'either a hard or a soft copy (in electronic form)' in place of the prior reference to 'copies.'