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The Commission received information from the informant companies that GAIL imposed arbitrary and one-sided conditions on its consumers through the Gas Supply Agreement (GSA). &nbsp;It was alleged that by way of these conditions GAIL is trying to force the Informants to purchase a specified quantity of natural gas from it each year for a period of twenty years, failing which GAIL is raising arbitrary demand for shortfall by way of off-take under the \u2018Pay For If Not Taken\u2019 \/\u2018take or pay\u2019 clause introduced in the GSA. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p ><span lang=\"EN-US\">The Commission referring its own decisions in <i>Faridabad Industries Association (<st1:stockticker w:st=\"on\">FIA<\/st1:stockticker>) <\/i>v.<i> Adani Gas Limited<\/i>&nbsp; and <i>Saint Gobain Glass India Limited <\/i>v. <i>&nbsp;Gujarat Gas Company Limited <\/i>examined that relevant product market of natural gas (a distinct and distinguishable source from other sources of energy in terms of product\u2019s characteristics) can be divided into two relevant markets based on the nature of use by consumers i.e. domestic consumers and industrial consumers. With respect to relevant geographical market, the Commission opined that the Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB) regulates the gas energy supply and distribution on City\/State basis and not India as whole. &nbsp;Therefore, from the point of view of plausibility of intake and supply of the natural gas a city or region will the relevant geographical market. The Commission viewed that the relevant market in the present case would be market for \u2018<i>supply and distribution of natural gas (RLNG) to industrial consumers in Vadodara<\/i>.\u2019 In this relevant market GAIL is enjoying dominant position. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p ><span lang=\"EN-US\">The Commission considering the material on record found that liability of the informants was substantially reduced by GAIL when they showed inability to take supply of minimum prescribed gas, which shows that the behaviour of GAIL was rational and not arbitrary. It observed that the GSAs, when they were entered into appears to have been entered into after thorough negotiations and discussions. The Commission ruled that safeguarding commercial interest or invoking contractual clauses, which are not unfair per se,<i> <\/i>cannot be termed as unfair just because they are invoked by one of the parties to the contract. &nbsp;<\/span><i><span lang=\"EN-US\">Gujarat Industries Power Company<\/span><\/i><span lang=\"EN-US\"> <i>Limited<\/i> v.&nbsp; <i>Gail (India) Limited, decided <\/i>on <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">08\/09\/2015<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Competition Commission of India: The fair play watchdog has closed two cases against GAIL (India) Ltd. for abuse of dominant position. 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