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Event Report: Future of Competition Policy in Digital Markets

Aiming to add to the ongoing discourse on policy and regulatory approaches to addressing competition issues in digital markets, The Dialogue hosted a virtual roundtable discussion titled, ‘Future of Competition Policy in Digital Markets’ on March 10, 2023. The Roundtable opened with a panel discussion featuring Dr. Amar Patnaik, Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha, Dr.

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Primer: 53rd Report of the Standing Committee on Finance and a Potential Ex-Ante Competition Law Regime

INTRODUCTION The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance (the Committee) recently released its 53rd report on ‘Anti-Competitive Practices by Big Tech Companies’ (the Report). Thereafter, the MCA constituted a new committee to, among other things, analyse the need for a new ex-ante framework for digital markets and draft a new DCA. These developments come at a

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The Institutionalisation of India’s Data Protection Authority

As the PDP Bill was withdrawn from the parliament during the monsoon session of 2022 to introduce the new comprehensive data protection bill, through this paper, we highlight the concerns with the envisioned Data Protection Authority within the previous versions of the Bill to, in turn, inform the new bill. The PDP Bill provided a

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