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10 Oct 2022 seven Hong Kong car distributorsHong Kong: seven car distributors drop repair-shop tie-in from warranties Order
On 10 October 2022 the Competition Commission (Hong Kong's competition authority) accepted commitments from seven sole distributors covering 17 passenger car brands. Their warranty terms required maintenance and repairs – including work not covered by the warranty – to be carried out at authorised repair centres, failing which the warranty was at risk; the authority considered this a possible breach of the First Conduct Rule (the ban on anti-competitive agreements) to the detriment of independent workshops. The distributors no longer enforce these clauses, will remove them from their warranty documents within 90 days, will inform existing customers and are bound for five years; no fine was imposed.
Warranty and distribution clauses that in practice tie customers to authorised workshops should be tested against competition law before they are used.
Competition law in distribution and warranty terms: workshop tie-ins
- Authority / court
- Competition Commission (Hongkong)
- Area of law
- Competition law
- Legal basis
- Competition Ordinance (Cap. 619), s. 6(1) (First Conduct Rule); Annahme von Verpflichtungszusagen nach s. 60
- Action
- Order
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Automotive
- Published
- 10 Oct 2022
- Competition Commission (Hongkong), Veröffentlichung der Behörde (Entscheidung 2022) Decision of an authority
Checked against the official source on 7 Oct 2026 · Company name anonymised since 10 Oct 2024 · Direct link