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22. The Government should be the major funder of the Commission’s operations
through grants since the Commission is a Statutory Body with noncommercial
functions of a regulatory nature. The government grant to the
Commission is however much lower than income from other sources, such as
imposed for breach of competition law should ideally be paid to Treasury,
service fees could be paid to the Commission for cost reduction purposes,
and as supplementary to government grants for use to fund the Commission’s
developmental projects.
23. There is a serious transport problem in the Commission, which is affecting
the investigation of competition and consumer cases, as well as the undertaking
of advocacy and awareness campaigns.
The Government should take up its responsibility of ensuring that the CCPC’s
operations are fully funded from government grants.
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The CCPC should be given the necessary capital expenditure funds to procure
the much-needed equipment to allow it to carry out its tasks effectively.
V. Recommendations Directed to Cooperating Partners
24. The CCPA provides for the setting up of the CCPT to hear appeals against
the decisions of the CCPC. Even though the Tribunal was established in 2011
it is still not fully operational pending the gazetting of its rules. The Tribunal
will work closely with the judiciary, which however has not had much experience
in considering competition and consumer protection cases. Both the
Tribunal and the judiciary therefore require capacity building and training in
the area of competition and consumer protection policy and law.
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it faced in doing so were mainly related to the human factor. It had to
rely on other security agencies to undertake the raids, which had little knowledge
of what was being looked for. Lessons were learnt but it was recognized
that a lot more needed to be done by the Commission at the next raid. The
of information and appropriate economic tools. Training needs required in
competition enforcement include investigative skills, litigation skills, and, to a
lesser extent, principles of competition law.
Competition law training should be organized for members of the CCPT,
and consumer protection policy and law be continuously built upon through
the holding of periodical adjudicators’ seminars and workshops at which the
other members of the Judiciary in Zambia, including Magistrates and Judges,
would be invited.
The CCPT should undergo extensive training in the conduct of dawn raids, as
well as in other competition enforcement areas such as case investigations
and litigation.
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