China’s Auto Antitrust Guidelines Released to the Public

• Author: Bi Yun,Hong Lushen,Liu Cheng,Jeff Liu
• Published date: 19 August 2020
• Date: 19 August 2020
• Citation: jd0016
• Subject Matter: Corporate Law

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China’s Auto Antitrust Guidelines Released to the

Public

By King & Wood Mallesons on August 19, 2020

Authors: Liu Cheng, Hong Lushen, Bi Yun, Jeff Liu

Corporate & Commercial Group, King & Wood Mallesons

Introduction

On 20 February 2020, in his annual review “Dedicated to Fair Competition and Serving

Reform and Development – Overview of Antitrust Work in 2019”, Mr. Wu Zhenguo, the

Director of the Anti-monopoly Bureau (“AMB”) of the State Administration for Market

Regulation (“SAMR”), mentioned that the Anti-monopoly Committee of the State Council

has issued four antitrust guidelines including the Antitrust Guidelines for the Automotive

Industry (“Auto Guidelines”).

Recently, we noticed that the four antitrust guidelines (namely the Auto Guidelines, the

Antitrust Guidelines for Intellectual Property Area, the Guidelines for Application of

Leniency in Horizontal Monopoly Agreement Cases, and the Guidelines for Business

Operators’ Commitment in Monopoly Cases) were included in the Compendium of

Antitrust Regulations and Guidelines 2019[1] compiled by the AMB, through which the

four antitrust guidelines were officially released to the public.