The Competition Appellate Tribunal, Islamabad has remanded the Al-Ghazi Tractors Limited case back to the Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) for fresh proceedings from the stage of the show cause notice.
\nDuring the hearing, the appellant relied on a report of the Agricultural Mechanization Research Institute (AMRI), Punjab, which had been cited in its defence, said a press release issued by the CCP on Tuesday.
\nThe Tribunal directed that before proceeding further, CCP shall issue a notice to AMRI and confront the institute with the report placed on record, along with the conclusions drawn by the appellant regarding its contents.
\nThe Tribunal also allowed CCP, if it considers appropriate, to seek input from other tractor manufacturers whose products were compared in the AMRI document.
\nThe Tribunal instructed that the proceedings be completed within 90 days. It further ordered that the security amount of Rs 10 million earlier deposited by Al-Ghazi be discharged in favour of the appellant.
\nThe case concerns CCP\u2019s earlier order imposing a Rs 40 million penalty on Al-Ghazi Tractors for advertising a misleading claim of \u201cup to 30% extra diesel savings.\u201d CCP had found that the claim, wrongly attributed to an AMRI report, could mislead farmers, and that AMRI had neither certified nor endorsed such a comparison. It had tested only limited models and had even cautioned the company against misusing its name.
\nCCP will now resume the proceedings as directed by the Tribunal, reaffirming its resolve to protect consumers from deceptive marketing in the agricultural machinery sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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