{"id":1012,"date":"2013-09-14T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-14T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amlak.net.sa?p=1012"},"modified":"2013-09-14T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-14T15:00:00","slug":"%d9%85%d8%ac%d9%84%d8%b3-%d8%ad%d9%85%d8%a7%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d9%86%d8%a7%d9%81%d8%b3%d8%a9-%d9%8a%d8%ad%d9%82%d9%82-%d9%85%d8%b9-%d9%85%d8%b5%d8%a7%d9%86%d8%b9-%d8%a8%d9%84%d9%88%d9%83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amlak.net.sa\/en\/1012\/","title":{"rendered":"CPC investigates block factories that agreed to stabilize prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Al-Qassim \u2013 Amlak<br \/>\nThe Competition Protection Council conducted a preliminary investigation into several concrete block factories in the Al-Qassim region, undertaking a number of fact-finding and investigative measures, gathering evidence, and examining the possibility that these factories had colluded to fix their selling prices.<br \/>\nAn agreement to fix prices constitutes a clear violation of the Competition Protection Council\u2019s regulations, pursuant to Article 4, which stipulates that the Council shall warn against or address various practices, alliances, or explicit or implicit agreements among competing entities that disrupt the system of competition, particularly in the context of controlling the prices of goods and services intended for sale\u2014whether by raising, lowering, or fixing them. It should be noted that Article 14 of the Executive Regulations of the Competition Law authorizes Council officials to enter establishments suspected of violating the provisions of this law, to review all documents, and to conduct an immediate investigation into the violations attributed to. The Council is committed to protecting and promoting fair competition and combating monopolistic practices or practices that could affect legitimate competition in the Kingdom\u2019s market and across various sectors. The Board of Directors is chaired by the Minister of Commerce and Industry, Dr. Tawfiq Al-Rabiah.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">Minute<\/span><\/span>Al-Qassim \u2013 Amlak: The Competition Protection Council has conducted a preliminary investigation into certain concrete block factories in the Al-Qassim region, undertaking a number of fact-finding and investigative measures, gathering evidence, and examining the possibility that these factories colluded to fix sales prices. Agreeing to fix prices constitutes a clear violation of the Competition Protection Council\u2019s regulations, pursuant to Article 4, which stipulates \u2026 <a title=\"CPC investigates block factories that agreed to stabilize prices\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/amlak.net.sa\/en\/1012\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about the Competition Protection Council investigating block manufacturers that agreed to fix prices\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"amlak_video_sent":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislation-and-regulations"],"acf":{"amlak_post_excerpt":"","amlak_post_excerpt_source":{"label":"Amlak post excerpt","type":"text","formatted_value":""}},"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","trp-custom-language-flag":"","event-thumbnail":"","event-medium":"","event-large":"","event-hero":""},"author_info":{"info":["\u0627\u0645\u0644\u0627\u0643 \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0642\u0627\u0631\u064a\u0629"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/amlak.net.sa\/en\/category\/development-construction\/legislation-and-regulations\/\" rel=\"category tag\">\u0627\u0644\u062a\u0634\u0631\u064a\u0639\u0627\u062a \u0648\u0627\u0644\u0623\u0646\u0638\u0645\u0629<\/a>","tag_info":"\u0627\u0644\u062a\u0634\u0631\u064a\u0639\u0627\u062a \u0648\u0627\u0644\u0623\u0646\u0638\u0645\u0629","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amlak.net.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amlak.net.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amlak.net.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amlak.net.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amlak.net.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amlak.net.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amlak.net.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amlak.net.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amlak.net.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}