Anti Trust and Competition Laws in Malaysia

Course Objective

By attending this course, participants will be able to:

• Understand the Competition Act 2010 and its implications.
• Review the steps to be taken to ensure compliance.
• Stay abreast with current competition issues and its developments.
• Minimize exposure to anti-competitive behaviour.
• Embrace practical solutions to enhance your competition law compliance programmes and strategies.

Target Audience

This course is suitable for senior managers

Methodology

• Highly Interactive Session, with a bilateral approach to the subject matter allowing participants to share incidences at respective work locations.

• Mind Mapping and Recap Sessions
• Case Studies

Course Modules

MODULE 1 : A quick overview of the Competition Act 2010 and its evolution.

MODULE 2 : Objectives, significance and role of CA 2010

MODULE 3 : Competition Act 2010: Prohibition

Chapter 1 Prohibition (An Overview)

• Horizontal / Vertical Agreements
• Prohibited Practices
• Price Fixing
• Market or Sources sharing of supply
• Limiting / Control Production, Market (Outlets / Access), Technical Development & Investment
• Bid Rigging

Chapter 2 Prohibition (An Overview)

– Abuse of Dominant Position

– Prohibited Practices

• Imposing an unfair purchase or selling price or other unfair trading condition;
• Limiting / Control Production, Market (Outlets / Access), Technical Development & Investment
• refusing to supply to a particular enterprise or group or category of enterprise;
• applying different conditions to equivalent transactions with different trading parties, discouraging new market entry/ expansion/ investment,
• forcing an existing competitor from the market or serious injure it /harm competition in any market
• making contracts subject to supplementary conditions which have no connection to the subject matter of the contract;
• predatory behaviour towards competitors; or
• buying up a scarce supply of intermediate goods or resources required by a competitor without any commercial justification

– How to act within reason commercial ambits and establish basic / reasonable commercial justification.

MODULE 4 : MyCC, businesses and public’s roles

MODULE 5 : Legal Penalties

MODULE 6 : Third Party Management (Customers, Suppliers, Vendors, Contractors)

MODULE 7 : Question and Answers