China Monthly Antitrust & Data Protection Update - October 2021

ANTITRUST

Legislation

The Amendments to the Anti-monopoly Law Is to Be Reviewed Between 19 October and 23 October

On 28 September 2021, the 102nd Chairman meeting of the Standing Committee on 13th National People's Congress was held in Beijing. As decided at the meeting, the 31st session of the top legislature will be held between 19 October and 23 October. The meeting will review a motion submitted by the State Council on a draft amendment to the Anti-Monopoly Law ("AML").¹

The Code of Ethics for New Generation Artificial Intelligence Proposes to Maintain Orderly Competition in the Market

On 25 September, the National Professional Committee on Governance of New Generation Artificial Intelligence released the Code of Ethics for New Generation Artificial Intelligence, which mentions that behaviours including data monopoly and platform monopoly that may destroy the orderly competition in the market shall be prohibited.²