https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=196359 The Competition Commission held that it could examine competition concerns in a regulated electricity sector despite the sectoral regulator's role, because allegations of abuse of dominance and anti-competitive conduct fell within its mandate. It found no evidence of an agreement or concerted practice and therefore no contravention of Section 3. The relevant market was the distribution and supply of electricity in each licensee's licensed area, and the opposite parties were treated as dominant because they held exclusive licences with no effective competing source. Abuse of dominance was not proved: the complaint-driven sample on allegedly fast-running meters was too small and non-representative, and meters within the permissible BIS error range did not, by themselves, establish misconduct. en-us Wed, 11 May 2011 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 28 Nov 2017 18:25:54 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=196359 The Competition Commission held that it could examine competition concerns in a regulated electricity sector despite the sectoral regulator's role, because allegations of abuse of dominance and anti-competitive conduct fell within its mandate. It found no evidence of an agreement or concerted practice and therefore no contravention of Section 3. The relevant market was the distribution and supply of electricity in each licensee's licensed area, and the opposite parties were treated as dominant because they held exclusive licences with no effective competing source. Abuse of dominance was not proved: the complaint-driven sample on allegedly fast-running meters was too small and non-representative, and meters within the permissible BIS error range did not, by themselves, establish misconduct. Case-Laws Law of Competition Wed, 11 May 2011 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=196359