TMI BlogCompetition Commission of India (General) Amendment Regulations, 2022X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... regulations may be called the Competition Commission of India (General) Amendment Regulations, 2022. (2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette. 2. In the Competition Commission of India (General) Regulations, 2009, Regulation 35 shall be substituted by the following:- (1) The Commission shall maintain confidentiality of the identity of an Informant on a request made to it in writing: Provided that where it is necessary or expedient to disclose the identity of the Informant for the purposes of the Act, the Commission may do so after providing a reasonable opportunity to the Informant, to represent its case before the Commission. (2) A party seeking confidentiality over the information or the doc ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... the first page and the word confidential clearly and legibly marked in red ink near the top on each page together with a non-confidential version thereof, which shall redact/ not contain such information(s) or document(s) or part(s) thereof upon which confidentiality has been claimed. (4) The non-confidential version of such document(s) shall be an exact copy of the confidential version with the omissions of the confidential information being indicated in a conspicuous manner, as stipulated in sub-regulation (3). (5) The document(s) or part(s) thereof that have been claimed to be confidential under this regulation shall be segregated from the non-confidential record and kept securely, bearing the title, the docket number of the proceeding, ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... ncluded in the Confidentiality Ring stating that the information accessed by their members pursuant to such ring, shall not be shared and/ or disclosed by them, to any other person including to any official and/ or other employee of enterprise concerned or to any official and/ or employee of any joint-venture, subsidiary, group entity of the concerned enterprise, or to any other person, whatsoever, and that they shall use such information and documents only for the purposes of the proceedings under the Act, and shall keep such information and documents within their sole custody, and shall destroy the same at the culmination of the present proceedings: Provided that separate undertaking(s) on aforesaid terms shall also be provided by each pa ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... b-section (1) of Section 17 of the Act or any officer appointed by the Central Government under sub-section (1) of Section 16 of the Act or any expert or professional engaged by the Commission under sub-section (3) of Section 17 of the Act or any expert called upon to assist the Commission under sub-section (3) of Section 36 of the Act privy to the contents of the document(s) or part(s) thereof that have been claimed confidential under this regulation, shall maintain confidentiality of the same and shall not use or disclose or deal with such confidential information for any purpose other than the purposes of the Act or any other law for the time being in force: Provided that breach of confidentiality by any officer or employee of the Commis ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X
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