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Chapter II Forbidden Practices
Article (8) Any agreement or contract may not be concluded either inside or outside the Sultanate of Oman, or to take any procedures, whether written or oral, for the purpose of monopolization in terms of import, production, distribution, and sale or purchase of any commodity or trade of the same or to take any form of monopoly that may negatively affect the market.
Article (9) Any agreement or contract may not be concluded either inside or out- side the Sultanate of Oman, or take any procedures or practices, whether written or oral implied or expressed, for the purpose of prevention of competition, elimination or undermining the same, particularly with re- gard to the following:-
A/ Pricing, discounts, sale or purchase terms and conditions or provisions of the services.
B/ Determination of the production quantities or elimination of the flows of the same to the market or removal thereof as entirely or partially through covering, storing of the same or refraining from dealing therein.
C/ Induction of the dealers in their market to provide quantities of the products in abrupt manner leading the trade of such prod- uct or performance of such service for unreal prices.
D/ Division of any current or potential market for the products on the geographic or consuming basis, depending on the client’s class, seasonal or period of time basis or depending on the com- modities basis.
E/ Prevention, hampering, suspending any practice for any per-