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velopment Agency); and (xiii) ZWMA (Zambia Weights & Measures Agency).
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visit interview held on 18 October 2011.
159 Section 12(e) of the old Competition and Fair Trading Act, 1994 provided that a person should not “supply any product
which is likely to cause injury or health or physical harm to consumers, when properly used, or which does not comply
with a consumer safety standard which has been prescribed under any law”.
160 Section 7(2)(e) of the old Act provided that enterprises in dominant positions should refrain from the restrictive practice
of “imposing restrictions where or to whom or in what form or quantities goods supplied or other goods may be sold
or exported”.
161 Competition and Consumer Protection (General) Regulations, 2011 (Statutory Instrument No.97 of 2011).
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163 The main airports are Kenneth Kaunda International Airport (in the Lusaka Province), the Kalulushi and Ndola Airports
(Copperbelt Province), the Chipata Airport (Eastern Province), the Livingstone Airport (Southern Province), the Kasama
Airport (Northern Province), the Mansa Airport (Luapula Province), the Solwezi Airport (the North Western Province),
and the Mongu Airport (Western Province).
164 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_in_Zambia.
165 http://www.railtracker.org/RailSFFILIATES/Railways/ZR/zrrailnt.htm.
166 http://seat61.com/Zambia.htm/
167 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tansport_in_Zambia.
168 Part III of the Act, on Restrictive Business and Anticompetitive Trade Practices, provides for the prohibition of both anticompetitive
agreements and abuse of dominance. The available statistics on the Commission’s case load in the Annual
Reports do not make a clear distinction between these two sets of anticompetitive practices.
169 CCPC 2010 Annual Report.
170 For example: (i) in 2010, the Commission conditionally authorized the takeover of 100per cent shares capital of Zain Africa
BV (including Celtel Zambia Plc) by Bharti Airtel International (Netherlands) BC on the conditions that “the disputes
pertaining to the interconnection fees issues in the sector in relation to the outstanding complaints of interconnection
fees/rates to the competitors which is inimical to section 7(2)(a) and (b) of the Competition and Fair Trading Act, Cap.
417 of the Laws of Zambia” and “to address full disclosure to the public of mobile internet and roaming charges (and any
other services on offer) in compliance with section 12(d) of the Competition and Fair Trading Act, Cap. 417 of the Laws
Alliance by Zambia Airlines on condition that the parties to the transaction did not abuse their dominant position of
market power in the domestic market, and it also conditionally authorized the joint venture between Copperbelt Energy
Corporation and Realtime Technology Allieance Africa Limited on condition that Copperbelt Energy Corporation should
not engage in any form of discrimination when providing its services to internet service providers; and (iii) in 2008, the
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of the Zambia Competition Commission.
171 The ICN launching authorities were from Australia, Canada, European Union, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea,
Mexico, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States, and Zambia.
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Unilateral Conduct Working Group; (iv) the Advocacy Working Group; and (v) the Agency Effectiveness Working Group.
173 The nine COMESA member States that provided members of the Board of Commissioners are Djibouti, Egypt, Kenya,
Mauritius, Seychelles, Swaziland, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
174 SADC is a trade and development regional grouping, whose country membership comprise the Republic of Angola,
the Republic of Botswana, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Kingdom of Lesotho, the Republic of Malawi, the
Republic of Mauritius, the Republic of Mozambique, the Republic of Namibia, the Republic of Seychelles, the Republic