China Adopts a Comprehensive Competition Law After a 13-Year Journey

September 02, 2007 | BY

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By Michael Sheng and Xu [email protected]; [email protected] has been drafting its first comprehensive competition law, the Anti-monopoly…

By Michael Sheng and Xu Bin

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China has been drafting its first comprehensive competition law, the Anti-monopoly Law (反垄断法)(AML) since 1994. The thirteen-year AML legislative marathon finally came to end on August 30 2007 when the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress adopted the AML. The AML will become effective on August 1 2008.

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