Zambian entities and other companies doing business in Zambia
will soon experience a renewed focus on competition enforcement
from the country's competition authorities.
The new Zambian competition legislation created the Competition
and Consumer Protection Commission and the Competition Tribunal.
For the past two years, the Competition Tribunal has only existed
on paper, which made it difficult for the Commission to enforce its
directives and decisions. Parties aggrieved by the
Commission's decisions were also left without a remedy as
they could not take their appeals to the Tribunal. The Tribunal was
expected to have its first hearing on Monday 8 October 2012
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