The Spanish Commission for Markets and Competition (CNMC) has released a report on the wholesale market for road fuels in Spain. The report proposes the adoption of regulatory measures to improve effective competition in the sector and enhance consumer welfare in Spain. The report analyses the main factors limiting effective competition in the automotive road […]

The CNMC (Spain) has launched a public consultation on the new models for service delivery and the sharing economy. You are kindly invited to read all the details and contribute here.

The Spanish National Authority for Competition and Markets and the Portuguese Competition Authority held their sixth annual bilateral meeting earlier this month at the Iberian Competition Forum. Agency officials discussed case coordination, the role of chief economists, priorities and recent changes for each agency, and a staff exchange program.  In particular, the agencies will continue […]

The Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia, CNMC (Spain´s National Authority for Competition and Markets) began operations in 2013, creating a new authority in charge of both competition and regulatory matters. The new authority merged the competition authority, the CNC, with several sector regulators responsible for Telecom, Energy, Railway, Postal, Audiovisual, and Airport […]

The Comision Nacional de la Competencia (CNC) has recently released their third report monitoring the automotive fuel distribution market in Spain.  The CNC report concludes that the automotive fuel distribution market has an insufficient level of effective competition and urges the implementation of the recommendations issued by the CNC in its report of March 2009.

  Among other areas, the CNC also focuses on the maritime transport sector and recently imposed two fines:  The CNC imposes fines on the shipping companies operating the Algeciras-Ceuta-Algeciras passenger transport line for taking part in a cartel.  The CNC fines hauliers from the port of Bilbao for being responsible for a cartel involved in […]

  The CNC has been focusing lately on the postal sector in Spain and has published a report:  Report on the new regulatory framework for the traditional postal sector in Spain: Full report in English. Before, the CNC has participated in the legislative process of the new postal law by issuing a Report on Universal […]

  The Spanish CNC recently published Guidelines on short-form notification of mergers, describing which type of concentrations are eligible for short-form notification to the CNC.

  The CNC has been focusing lately on the automotive fuel sector in Spain and has published a follow-up report on the CNC‘s automotive fuel report.  The follow-up report in available in English. It monitors what is established in the 2009 report on competition within the automotive fuel sector (the 2009 report also is available here, in […]

  Recently, the CNC has published several markets studies and reports on proposed bills in the agrifood sector, including: * Report on competition and the agrifood sector: Executive summary in English and full report in Spanish. * Report on the agrifood quality bill: Full report in Spanish * Report on the regulation on contracts in […]