(4)[Any other agreement amongst enterprises or persons including but not restricted to agreement amongst enterprises or persons] at different stages or levels of the production chain in different markets, in respect of production, supply, distribution, storage, sale or price of, or trade in goods or provision of services, including -(a)tie-in arrangement;(b)exclusive [dealing] agreement;(c)exclusive distribution agreement;(d)refusal to deal;(e)resale price maintenance, shall be an agreement in contravention of sub-section (1) if such agreement causes or is likely to cause an appreciable adverse effect on competition in India.[Provided that nothing contained in this sub-section shall apply to an agreement entered into between an enterprise and an end consumer.] Explanation. - For the purposes of this sub-section,-[(a) "tie-in arrangement" includes any agreement requiring a purchaser of goods or services, as a condition of such purchase, to purchase some other distinct goods or services;(b)"exclusive dealing agreement" includes any agreement restricting in any manner the purchaser or the seller, as the case may be, in the course of his trade from acquiring or selling or otherwise dealing in any goods or services other than those of the seller or the purchaser or any other person, as the case may be;](c)"exclusive distribution agreement" includes any agreement to limit, restrict or withhold the output or supply of any goods [or services] or allocate any area or market for the disposal or sale of the goods [or services];(d)"refusal to deal" includes any agreement which restricts, or is likely to restrict, by any method the persons or classes of persons to whom goods [or services] are sold or from whom goods [or services] are bought;(e)"resale price maintenance" [includes, in case of any agreement to sell goods or provide services, any direct or indirect restriction] that the prices to be charged on the resale by the purchaser shall be the prices stipulated by the seller unless it is clearly stated that prices lower than those prices may be charged;
