Anticompetitive Procedures Crime or Offence? (Explanation of a New Approach in Criminal System of Iran)

The category of competitive law is a new category which has recently been entered the Iranian criminal policy that has brought about new norms called anticompetitive procedures. Such procedures include recent prohibitions for the individuals in the economic activities. Noticing the methods for conforming the norms to the anticompetitive procedures and investigating its nature state a new approach adopted by Iranian legislatures. Such an approach is considered as offence establishing leading to the alteration of the traditional concept of offence and formulating a new meaning for this term. Offence in its new sense may include very significant and central issues. The more the offences enhance, the more the rules and regulations against such offences develop. The effective principles and factors in adopting such policies are in variety. However, the most fundamental policies root in criminal law studies such as the minimal criminal law, criminal inflation, international law data, offence considerations, and resorting to judicial authorities.