CS Professional · Corporate Restructuring, Valuation and Insolvency · Regulation of Combinations
Kaveri Pharma and Meru Drugs are rivals. The Commission is deciding the 'relevant product market' for their tablets. Meru argues that tablets for adults and tablets for children should be treated as separate markets. Which factor in the provided text, added by the 2023 amendment, most directly supports examining that argument?
Categories of customers is correct. It is a factor for the relevant product market, added by the 2023 amendment, and fits a split between adult and child buyers. Regulatory trade barriers, national procurement policies and language are geographic market factors.
- ACategories of customersCorrect
- BRegulatory trade barriers
- CNational procurement policies
- DLanguage
Explanation
Categories of customers is a relevant product market factor inserted by Act 9 of 2023. The other options are geographic market factors, so they do not suit a product-market question.
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