Competition Law Quarterly Update - July - September 2025

C&M brings you a round of key competition law developments from July to September 2025 – a quarter marked by recommendations on policy reform, notable court rulings and lots of activity on the enforcement side at CCI along with 33 merger approval orders and including one with modifications. Key highlights include:

• The Standing Committee on Finance recommends balanced and evidence-based approach to digital market regulation.

• The Supreme Court issues key clarifications on the provisions and procedures relating to penalties and remedies.

• The Bombay High Court reaffirms the CCI’s discretion in granting an oral hearing and clarifies the scope of Section 26(2A). 

• The NCLAT upholds CCI’s findings in the UP soil-testing cartel case.

• The CCI penalised the Federation of Publishers’ and Booksellers’ Association for resale restraints and other anti-competitive conduct.

• New investigations launched and certain complaints clubbed with ongoing investigations even as the CCI dismissed certain repetitive or time-barred complaints under Section 26(2A).

• In Bharat Forge, CCI delivered its first Phase II merger approval in the last six years and imposed behavioural commitments focussing on competitively sensitive information and ring-fencing KMPs.

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Competition Newsletter - Quarter Three - 2025 (2).pdf

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