Competition Act, 1998 (Act No. 89 of 1998)

Regulations

Buyer Power Regulations, 2020

2. Purpose

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The purpose of these Regulations is to—

 

(a) designate the sectors of dominant firms which are prohibited from requiring or imposing unfair prices or other trading conditions on a supplier;
(b) set out the relevant factors and benchmarks for determining whether prices and other trading conditions imposed are unfair; and
(c) in respect of firms owned or controlled by historically disadvantaged persons, set out the benchmarks for determining the firms to which section 8(4) applies.