Competition & Consumer Protection

Scope of service

The final scope is confirmed after reviewing the facts, documents, jurisdiction, and applicable deadlines.

Review horizontal, vertical, distribution, agency, franchise, supply, exclusivity, non-compete, information-sharing, joint-bidding, platform, and pricing arrangements for restrictions or abuse risks.

Assess market definition, relationships between parties, market power or dominance, efficiencies, exemptions, document language, and the evidence needed to support a compliant commercial rationale.

Screen acquisitions, mergers, joint ventures, control and influence rights, asset deals, and other economic concentrations for current notification, approval, suspension, timing, and information requirements.

Design competition protocols for due diligence, clean teams, trade-association activity, benchmarking, competitor contacts, dawn-raid response, document retention, training, reporting, and remediation.

Review consumer-facing terms, pricing, invoices, product and service information, advertisements, digital interfaces, distance sales, delivery, cancellation, warranty, maintenance, and complaint channels.

Respond to authority inquiries, inspections, information requests, competition or consumer complaints, corrective measures, settlement discussions, prosecution referrals, and related court proceedings.

Typical documents

Review can begin with available records; additional documents may be requested for the matter.

Distribution, supply, agency, franchise, platform, and competitor agreements
Pricing, discount, rebate, exclusivity, territory, sales, and market-share data
Transaction structure, control rights, turnover data, ownership, and group charts
Consumer terms, invoices, labels, specifications, warranties, and service records
Advertising, websites, apps, scripts, cancellation, delivery, and complaint processes
Policies, training, audits, complaints, inspections, and authority correspondence

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Legal framework and official references

Authoritative references defining the service’s general framework. The official Arabic text, later amendments, and matter-specific rules remain controlling.

Sources checked 6 September 2026

Competition Protection Law No. 3 of 2005, as amendedThe principal framework prohibiting anticompetitive agreements and abuse of dominance and regulating qualifying economic concentrations through the Egyptian Competition Authority.Executive Regulations of Competition LawThe implementing rules address definitions, complaints, inquiries, inspection, information gathering, notifications, and procedural operation of the competition framework, subject to later amendments.Consumer Protection Law No. 181 of 2018Governs supplier duties and consumer rights concerning information, pricing, invoices, advertising, defective products and services, warranties, distance contracting, complaints, and statutory remedies.