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..... ublic will result in disclosure of trade secrets or destruction or appreciable diminution of the commercial value of any information or can be reasonably expected to cause serious injury. Further, the party shall confirm the following, along with the date on which such confidential treatment shall expire, on self-certification basis: (a) that the information is not available in the public domain; (b) that the information is known only to limited employees, suppliers, distributors and others involved in the party s business; (c) that adequate measures have been taken by the party to guard the secrecy of the information; (d) that the information cannot be acquired or duplicated by others. The party claiming confidentiality shall provide an un .....

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..... which confidential treatment expires: Provided that the following shall be marked confidential (search and seizure/ e-mail dumps/ call detail records etc.) , as the case may be, and shall be kept separately: (a) documents/ material obtained through search and seizure operations; (b) e-mail dumps; (c) call detail records; or (d) any other document/ material in the nature of personal information. (6) The Commission may, if considered necessary or expedient, set up Confidentiality Ring(s) comprising of such authorised representatives of the parties, including, but not limited to, the authorised representatives specified under Section 35 of the Act, who would be able to access the information as mentioned in sub-regulation (5), as required, in .....

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..... o 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 document(s) 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 in the form of an affidavit shall also be provided by each party included in the Confidentiality Ring, to the other parties in the matter, whose confidential information is being accessed by it .....

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..... tified copies under regulation 38 read with regulation 51 of these regulations within a period of 7 (seven) days thereafter. (4) On receipt of an application seeking certified copies, the same shall be supplied within a period of 14 (fourteen) days: Provided that the Secretary may extend the time period(s) prescribed under sub-clause (2) above for a further period of 7 (seven) days but not thereafter. (12) (1) The Commission may, considering the facts and circumstances of a particular matter, in exceptional cases, extend the timelines prescribed under this regulation for reasons to be recorded in writing. (2) In case the party(s) fail to adhere to the given timelines, the Commission shall continue with the proceedings in accordance with law .....

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