Centre forms panel to mull if competition law needed for digital companies
A parliamentary panel has earlier recommended that there is a need to act against anti-competitive behaviour in the digital market
The Centre has formed a special committee to consider if there is a need for a separate competition law pertaining to digital companies, media networks have reported.
This comes after a parliamentary panel recommended the need to act against anti-competitive behaviour in the digital market.
It has also been suggested that a law be put in place to ensure a fair and transparent system.
Towards the end of last year, Minister of Information and Broadcasting Anurag Singh Thakur informed the Rajya Sabha that over 2,800 digital news publishers have furnished information under the Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code of the Information Technology Act, 2000 rules. These rules provide a code of ethics for digital media publishers.
