There are no category exemptions or Safe Harbor rules that are relevant to the analysis of vertical restrictions in India. Is there a particular point about assessing vertical restrictions in your area of jurisdiction that is not addressed above? Is there a procedure in which individuals can complain to the cartel enforcement authority and abuse of dominant position about allegedly illegal vertical restrictions? As part of its recent Digital Strategy for Europe, the Commission has identified better online access to goods and services as one of the three pillars of its Digital Single Market Strategy. In particular, the Commission has described the practice of geographical blocking within the EU as “unjustified” (i.e. it prohibits access to goods or services in other regions or redirects them to a local supplier at different prices) and its increased emphasis on this area has resulted in the application of the legislation. In March 2015, the Commission confirmed that it was studying the geoblocking of certain online video games for pc and, in February 2017, the Commission announced that it had opened a formal investigation into bilateral agreements between video game distributor Valve and five video game publishers. While the agreement in question may be subject to another EU group exemption, the category exemption does not apply to vertical agreements. Other common class exemptions include category exemption for motor vehicles, category exemption for technology transfer, category exemption for research and development, and category exemption for specialization agreements. The UK Competition Authority, the Competition Authority for Markets, has the power to withdraw the category exemption for vertical agreements for specific agreements. Although it is unlikely to exercise this right. The European Commission also has the power to remove the category exemption for vertical agreements in certain situations. In assessing vertical restrictions, the ICC should also take into account the behaviour of other companies in the sector, including whether these restrictions are objectively necessary due to sectoral concerns (e.g. B in a context of market dominance, see Faridabad Industries/Adani Gas Limited (Case No.