CCI Tightens Rules on Recovering Penalties to Curb Payment Delays

India's competition watchdog has cleared stricter penalty recovery rules to prevent erring parties from delaying payments by filing frivolous appeals, according to two people aware of the development.

- Gireesh Chandra Prasad

The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has approved an overhaul of its norms to allow issuing a demand notice to the erring enterprise to recover the penalty alongside the adjudication order holding them guilty, the people said on the condition of anonymity as details are not public yet.

This is a departure from the current practice of issuing demand notice after the period specified in the CCI order to pay the penalty ends.

That gave the erring parties a window to side-step the CCI orders by resorting to delaying tactics, the people said.

CCI chairperson Ravneet Kaur and three other members have approved the new regulations, said the people. These—likely to be called CCI (Manner of Recovery of Monetary Penalty) Regulations, 2025—will be notified soon, they said.

Queries emailed to the Competition Commission of India on Friday seeking comments for the story remained unanswered at the time of publishing.