Crossing the Crossroads: Making Competition Law Effective In Pakistan
![handle is hein.journals/intnlwrv8 and id is 109 raw text is: CROSSING THE CROSSROADS: MAKING COMPETITION LAW
EFFECTIVE IN PAKISTAN
Joseph Wilsont
I. The Run-up to the Competition Act of 2010.................... 106
A. The Competition Ordinance of 2007 ....................... 106
B. The Competition Ordinance of 2009 ....................... 108
C. The Competition Ordinance of 2010 ....................... 108
D. The Competition Act of 2010.............................. 109
II. The Competition Act of 2010: Objective & Tools............... 109
A. Objective: A Paradigm Shift.............................. 109
B. Substantive Provisions: Competition and Consumer
Protection ................................................. 110
C. Remedial and Sanctioning Powers.......................... 112
D . M erger Provisions......................................... 113
E. Competition Advocacy: Combating Public Restraint ......... 115
III. The Com m ission .............................................. 116
A . A ppointm ents ............................................. 118
B . The M odel................................................ 119
C . Independence ............................................. 121
D. Adjudicative Process ...................................... 122
IV. Enforcement Record........................................... 124
V. Concluding Remarks .......................................... 124
Introduction
This article is written as a follow up to my earlier piece titled At the Cross-
roads: Making Competition Law Effective in Pakistan' published in the North-
western Journal of International Law and Business in the Spring of 2006. That
article discussed the competition regime in Pakistan as established by the Mo-
nopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Ordinance of 19702 (MRTPO); the orga-
nizational structure of the Monopoly Control Authority (MCA), the enforcing
body of the MRTPO; factors impeding effective enforcement of MRTPO, and
t Member, Competition Commission of Pakistan; and also serves on the International Advisory
Board of The Loyola University Chicago School of Law's Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies,
USA. The views expressed here are the author's alone and are not necessarily the views of the Competi-
tion Commission of Pakistan or any of its members. The author wishes to thank Mr. Abdul Ghaffar for
his comments and for sharing his insights being associated with the reform process, which preceded the
introduction of the new competition regime in Pakistan.
I Joseph Wilson, At the Crossroads: Making Competition Law in Pakistan, 26 Nw. J. INT'L L. &
Bus 565 (2006).
2 Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices (Control and Prevention) Ordinance, 1970 (Pak.)
(Published in THE GAzETTE OF PAKISTAN EXTRAORDINARY, Feb. 26, 1970) [hereinafter MRTPO].
Volume 8, Issue 2 Loyola University Chicago International Law Review
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