AML Behavioural Enforcement Ramps Up: Part I – SAIC Developments

Keyword: SAIC developments, NDRC, SAIC, antitrust regulators, AML

Part I – SAIC Developments

A series of high-profile investigations involving foreign firms operating in China by the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and the State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC) has put China's antitrust regulators under the international spotlight in recent weeks.

In the first of a special three-part legal update advising clients on the significant increase in Anti-Monopoly Law (AML) enforcement activity and what this means for their businesses, we look at the SAIC, the regulator responsible for enforcing the law's non-pricing-related behavioural prohibitions, i.e., prohibitions of monopoly agreements and abuse of dominance in all cases except where the NDRC has jurisdiction.