Engagement of experts and professionals: revised grades, monthly lump-sum remuneration and age eligibility take effect on publication.
The amendment substitutes Schedule III of the principal regulations to prescribe graded monthly lump-sum remuneration and age eligibility for engagement of experts and young professionals. It specifies grades - Young Professional I, Young Professional II, Expert I, Expert II, and Expert III - with stated starting lump-sum monthly pay and a ten percent increase on completion of each year where applicable, and imposes upper age limits for the young professional grades. Effectiveness is tied to publication in the Official Gazette.

Engagement of Experts and Young Professionals: amended qualification, categorisation, remuneration and confidentiality rules apply for contractual engagements.
Amendments substitute the term Experts and Young Professionals, revise Schedule I to set detailed essential and desirable qualifications and sectoral or academic experience for Economist and Law and add Financial Analysis and Forensic Audit classes; Schedule II establishes graded experience bands for Young Professionals and Experts; Schedule III prescribes lump sum monthly remuneration bands with annual increases and age limits; engagements are contractual for one to three years with possible two year extension; confidentiality, integrity certificates and criminal record undertakings are required.

Confidentiality claims require self-certification and marked filings; access controlled by confidentiality rings and binding undertakings.
Regulation 35 mandates that parties seeking confidentiality must self-certify that disclosure would reveal trade secrets, degrade commercial value, or cause serious injury and state an expiry date for confidentiality. Claimants must file a fully marked confidential version and an exact non-confidential redacted copy; sensitive categories must be segregated. The Commission may form Confidentiality Ring(s) whose members access unredacted material only after providing undertakings restricting use, disclosure and requiring destruction after proceedings. Informants are ordinarily excluded from rings. Two versions of orders are required where confidential material appears, and breaches attract disciplinary or contractual consequences.

Merger filing requirements updated-revised form imposes expanded disclosure and market analysis obligations for notifications under competition law.
Amendments substitute a new Form II requiring notifying parties to provide detailed party identification, fee particulars, authorised Indian contact, financial metrics for threshold assessment, transaction description, implementation steps and timelines, commercial rationale, value and foreign investment disclosure, and filings in other jurisdictions. The form mandates exhaustive market analysis for horizontal and vertical overlaps (including market definition, five year sales and market share data, competitors, suppliers, concentration indices, entry/exit factors, R&D and regulatory constraints), group ownership and control charts, specified documentary attachments, and a declaration of completeness. FORM IV receives minor cross reference and address updates.

Extension of exemption validity under Competition Act increases notification period by substituting five years with ten years.
The Central Government, exercising powers under clause (a) of section 54 of the Competition Act, amended the Ministry of Corporate Affairs notification S.O. 2039(E) dated 29 June 2017 by substituting the words "five years" with "ten years" to extend the temporal validity of the exemption, the amendment being declared in the public interest.