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Q. 27 In what ways should the CA involve different stakeholders in its functioning?

Q. 27 In what ways should the CA involve different stakeholders in its functioning? . By occasional hearing Through structured consultative committee Any other CA stands for Competition Authority. Results. Most participants prefer a structured consultative committee

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Q. 27 In what ways should the CA involve different stakeholders in its functioning?

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  1. Q. 27 In what ways should the CA involve different stakeholders in its functioning? • By occasional hearing • Through structured consultative committee • Any other • CA stands for Competition Authority

  2. Results • Most participants prefer a structured consultative committee • Only 40.7 prefer occasional hearing • In all sectors (consumer, producer and government), most of them prefer the structured consultative committee • Consumer sector: 55.7% • Private sector: 69.4% • Gvt sector: 58.5% • Therefore, more participants prefer to participate in the decision making process of the CA

  3. Q. 28 Are there state-owned monopolies in Mauritius? • Results: 76.2% answered yes • 23.8% were not aware of state owned monopolies in Mauritius

  4. Q. 29 Do state-owned monopolies induldge in anti-competitive practices?

  5. Note: Monopolies often charge higher prices • Important aspect to deal with in competition policies • Results in all sectors: • Consumer sector 56.1% had positive answers • Producer sector: 62.9% had positive answers • In the gvt sector, 62.5% were not aware of anti-competitive practices

  6. Implications • Consumers and private producers are mostly affected (they are aware) of anti-competitive practices • Government enterprises do not feel so

  7. Q.30. If you encounter any anti-competitive practices, how would you react? • Options available: Seek help from legistlation • Seek help from the judiciary • Seek help from consumer forums • Any other specific

  8. Answers: • Option 1: 32% • Option 2: 21.6% • Option 3: 43.2% • Option 4: 3.2%

  9. Sector-wise results: • Consumer sector: 50.3% prefer consumer forums • Private sectors: prefer judiciary (35.9%) • Gvt sector: 37.5% for legislation • Thus, more consumers prefer consumer forums. • The judiciary and legislation are preferred method in the private and gvt sector

  10. Q. 31 Do you consider gvt policy towards foreign direct investment as pro-competitive? • Insignificantly, moderately, significantly or hugely

  11. Note: an important aspect of gvt policy is to attract FDI • If policy is anti-competitive, it discourages FDI The majority of participants moderately agreed with the question

  12. In private sector: • 69.2% moderately agreed • 2.6% hugely agreed • 17.9% insignificantly agreed • In gvt sector: • 11.6% significantly agreed • 30.2% insignificantly agreed • Higher % moderately agreed

  13. Q. 32 Would you advocate for a regional approach towards competition policy? • Recall: importance of regional corporation in various aspects (e.g domestic laws and policies) • Need to have regional consensus • Foreign investors are interested with regional policies • The CA should function at international level

  14. Positive results were found: Most participants opt for a regional approach (65.4%) • Those that do not prefer regional approach amounts to 23% • Positive results in all the sectors: • Private sector: 61.5% • Gvt : 67.4% • Important issue for the C. Authority

  15. Are there any policy in your sector which you consider anti-competitive? • The majority of participants (64.9%) were not aware of such policy • Only 35% were aware of such anti-competitive policy

  16. In both private and government sector, less participants were aware of any anti-competitive policy.

  17. Q. 34 If yes, should the anti-competitive practice be removed? • 61.7% answered yes • 38.3% answered no • Most participants believe that anti-competitive practices should be removed

  18. Q.35 Should the gvt occasionally introduce price controls on commodities where there is a lack of competition?

  19. Ans: Most participants agree that the gvt should intervene whenever there is a lack of competition61.7% (intervention)38.3% (no intervention)

  20. Private sectors: 61.5% gvt intervention • 39.5% (no gvt intervention) • Gvt sectors: 62.8% - intervention • 37.2% no intervention

  21. Q. 36 should price controls be removed? • The majority of them: price controls to be removed • Private sector: 55% (remove price controls) • 45% (do not remove) • Gvt sector: • 76.9% (remove price controls) • 23.1% ( do not remove price controls)

  22. Private sector: • More willing to remove price controls so as to allow competition in the market

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