 "CCI’s suggestions for e-commerce companies receive a mixed reaction")
The Competition Commission of India’s (CCI’s) suggestion of self-regulatory measures by e-commerce firms has elicited a mix of responses.
The study, ‘Market study on e-commerce in India’, begun in April 2019, was issued by CCI on Wednesday. The most consequential section of the report is the self-regulatory measures formulated by CCI, says Salman Waris, managing partner at Delhi-based TechLegis Advocates & Solicitors. “However, this feted advocacy initiative of the CCI promises to be controversial, as it makes e-commerce companies judges of their own cause and raises genuine questions (related) to the merit of allowing them to self-regulate to solve unfair practices
