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Central and South Asian Competition Authorities

[Update June 2008]

	Competition Authorities	Documents & Consumer Information on Telecom & ICT issues	Other institutions
Afghanistan	Minister of Commerce	Initiative for Regulatory Reform to Enhance Private Sector Development in Afghanistan: An Investor Roadmap 2006 (pdf) Afghanistan – Telecom Sector Profile TRB Contribution to APT Yearbook 2006 Telecommunications and Internet Policy 2003 (pdf; page 7)
Azerbaijan	Antimonopoly State Service – Ministry of Economic Development Department of Antimonopoly Policy Committee for Antimonopoly Policy
Bangladesh	Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry	Competition Policy and Consumer Rights: Bangladesh Scenario 2006 (ppt)
Bhutan	The Brunei Darussalam International Chamber of Commerce and Industry	Telecommunications in the land of the Thunder Dragon: recent developments in Bhutan 2004 Competition Advocacy in Brunei Daarussalam: Where to start? (pdf)
Georgia	The State Antimonopoly Service of Georgia	Local Telephone Competition Georgia Cities Gear up to Compete with Private Telecom, Cable TV Whatever Happened To Telecommunications Deregulation?	Georgia Public Policy Foundation
India	Competition Commission of India	IP rights are covered under Copyright Act (1957) India – Telecom and Competition Policy 2005 (doc) Competition: good practices in India (ppt) Why the Indian telecom regulator embraced competition 2006	India Competition and Regulation Report (ICRR)
Kazakhstan	Competition Protection Committee – Ministry of Industry & Trade, Republic of Kazakhstan Agency for Regulation of Natural Monopolies, Protection of Competition and support of Small Business	Regulation of the Telecommunications Sector in Kazakhstan (pdf) Telecom Regulation (pdf)
Kyrgyzstan	State Commission on Antimonopoly
Maldives		Maldives Telecommunication Policy 2001-2005 (pdf; page 12)
Nepal		Asia Pacific Forum on Telecommunications Policy and Regulation: Nepal Country Paper 2003 (doc) Telecommunications Policy (5.4 Liberalization of the Telecommunication Sector) 2004
Pakistan	Competition Commission of Pakistan
Russia	Federal Antimonopoly Service
Sri Lanka	Consumer Affairs Authority – National Intellectual Property Office of Sri Lanka
Tajikistan	State Agency for Antimonopoly and Support of Entrepreneurship
Turkmenistan	Committee for Antimonopoly Activity – Ministry of Economy and Finances
Uzbekistan	State Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan on Demonopolization & Support of Competition and Entrepreneurship

Additional Resources:

World Bank Competition Law

Approaches to Competition Policy in South Asian Countries

Telecommunications in Asia: A closer look at South Asia (prepared by the Telecommunication Data and Statistics Unit of ITU’s Telecommunication Development Bureau)

Competition policy in World Trade Organization (WTO)