The Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) has appreciated compliance by Pak Suzuki Motor Company when it promptly responded to the concerned shared by the Commission. Since establishment (almost 6 years), the CCP is focused on corrective behaviour, said a statement issued by the CCP here on Monday.
A positive outcome is that businesses are rectifying their anti-competitive practices and behaviour are integrating competition compliance into their corporate governance framework. Earlier concerns were raised by customers regarding the Booking Order issued by car manufacturer companies in Pakistan for purchase of a new car. Scrutiny of booking order revealed that terms and conditions mentioned therein appear to be unfair trading conditions imposed on customers in terms of Section 3(3)(a) of the Competition Act, 2010.
Aforementioned competition concerns were shared with Pak Suzuki Motor Company Limited and Indus Motor Company Limited. Pak Suzuki promptly responded to address the concerns raised and revised the terms and conditions of its booking order in compliance of the provisions of the Competition Act.
Terms and conditions which have been rectified by Pak Suzuki include the right of cancellation of booking which was not available to customer before and change in design and specifications without notice to customer only to the extent of minor changes as the car manufacturers were earlier enjoying arbitrary right to change design and specifications without notice to customers. Similarly, price of car will not be changed at the time of delivery except change in government taxes and levies instead of right of car manufacturer to change the price anytime before the car is delivered to customer.
In case the car manufacturer cannot make available the colour opted by the customer at the time of booking, the customer will be given choice of two colours available at that time and if still car is not made available in one of selected colours then the customer will have the right of cancellation without any penalty.-PR
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