Engagement of experts or professionals now requires fixed contractual tenure and updated qualification and experience criteria.
Amendments expand the defined category to "experts or professionals including research associates" and substitute regulation 8(1) to provide that such experts or professionals including research associates shall ordinarily be engaged by the Commission on contractual basis for not less than one year and not more than three years. The amendments further revise Schedule I to set essential and desirable qualifications and experience for legal posts, and amend Schedule II to change preferred experience for Level I to one to three years.

Appointment of Chairperson under Competition Act designates tenure and ties service conditions to tribunal rules.
The Central Government appointed a Chairperson of the Competition Appellate Tribunal under the Competition Act, 2002, for a limited tenure subject to an upper age limit and until further orders; the Chairperson's salaries, allowances and other terms of service are governed by the Competition Appellate Tribunal Rules, 2009 as amended.

Merit-order requirement: panel of names for commission appointments must be ranked in order of merit under amended selection rules.
Amendment inserts the phrase "in order of merit" into sub-rule (i) of rule 5 of the 2008 Selection Committee Rules, requiring that the panel of names forwarded under the provision be ranked by merit; the change affects only the sequencing of names on the panel and does not modify eligibility criteria or committee composition.

Selection Committee recommendations: ranked candidate panels must be submitted in order of merit for each vacancy.
The amendment replaces rule 5 to require the Selection Committee, for each referred vacancy, to recommend a panel of up to three names and to submit any multi-name panel in order of merit; the provision is made under the Competition Act and commences on publication in the Official Gazette.

Delay interest on penalty payments: specified monthly interest accrues and recovery actions may follow for non payment.
The amendment to Form I requires that failure to deposit a penalty within the stipulated period attracts simple interest calculated monthly from the day after the demand period expires until payment, and authorises the Commission to take necessary recovery measures and actions for non compliance with its orders.

Combination filing rule: substance over form standard disregards structures avoiding notification; fees and forms updated accordingly.
A new sub regulation directs that the filing requirement be determined with respect to the substance of the transaction, disregarding any structure designed to avoid notification. Specified filing fees are increased, regulation 29 and category (10) of Schedule I are omitted, and Schedule II forms are updated to require disclosure of horizontal and vertical overlaps, cross jurisdictional filing status with certified foreign orders, and audited asset and turnover figures for the two preceding financial years while simplifying verification requirements.

Substance-over-form in merger filings: restructuring that avoids notice will be disregarded, altering filing assessment and fees.
Substance-over-form is made determinative for notice obligations, disregarding any transaction structure designed to avoid filing; filing fees are increased; Schedule changes omit a regulation and a category; Form I now requires disclosure of horizontal or vertical overlaps and whether filings exist in other jurisdictions with certified orders; Form II prescribes audited two year asset and turnover reporting for India and worldwide and removes the instruction requiring signature verification on each page.

Salary revision for Competition Commission members: consolidated pay set and housing and vehicle allowances removed, effective retrospectively.
Rule 3 of the Competition Commission of India (Salary, Allowances and other Terms and Conditions of Service of Chairperson and other Members) Rules, 2003 is substituted to provide that the Chairperson shall be paid a consolidated monthly salary of four lakh fifty thousand rupees and every Member a consolidated monthly salary of three lakh seventy five thousand rupees, and they shall not be entitled to any allowance relating to house and vehicle, with effect from 1 July 2013.

Remuneration revision for commission members: consolidated salaries established and house and vehicle allowances expressly excluded.
Amendment prescribes consolidated monthly pay for the Chairperson and Members and excludes entitlement to house and vehicle allowances, with the substituted pay rule deemed effective from 1 July 2013; the notification invokes the Competition Act and includes a retrospective-effect declaration that no person's interest shall be adversely affected.