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Mexico City, March 31st, 2022.   The Federal Economic Competition Commission (“COFECE” for its acronym in Spanish) announced today that it has initiated investigation no. IEBC-001-2022 to determine the possible existence in the retail e-commerce market of barriers to competition and free market access and/or essential inputs that may generate anti-competitive effects in Mexico. COFECELeer más

Mexico City, January 27th, 2022.   On January 27th, 2022, the Federal Economic Competition Commission (“Commission”) issued an eleventh general resolution that suspends deadlines for certain proceedings (the “Eleventh Suspension”). The Commission’s Board decided that from January 28th through February 11th, 2022, the Commission will be working as usual, but all deadlines would be suspended exceptLeer más

No. 04/2021   OCTOBER The Federal Economic Competition Commission («COFECE») sanctions several companies and individuals for colluding in the market for baby diapers, feminine sanitary protection and incontinence products. On October 01, 2021, COFECE imposed fines totaling 313,473,000 pesos to Essity Higiene y Salud México, Kimberly Clark de México and Productos Internacionales Mabe, as wellLeer más

Mexico City, January 14th, 2022.   On January 14th, 2022, the Federal Economic Competition Commission (“Commission”) issued a tenth general resolution that suspends deadlines for certain proceedings (the “Tenth Suspension”). The Commission’s Board decided that from January 14th through 27th, 2022 the Commission will be working as usual, but all deadlines would be suspended except forLeer más

Mexico City, January 7th, 2022.   On January 5th, 2022, the Federal Economic Competition Commission (“FECC”) published in the Official Gazette (“OG”) the launch of an ex officio investigation into the potential commission of absolute monopolistic practices (“AMP”) in the market for the integration, installation, maintenance and distribution of equipment, accessories and replacement parts forLeer más

No. 03/2021   JULY COFECE publishes an informative note regarding the work carried out in the liquefied petroleum gas (“LPG”) market. On July 7th, the Federal Economic Competition Commission («COFECE» for its acronym in Spanish or «Commission») published a report on the actions and efforts carried out in the gasoline, diesel, LPG, turbo gasoline andLeer más

Mexico City, September 24th, 2021.   The Federal Economic Competition Commission («FECC») published yesterday the resolution of the trial-like proceeding under case file IO-002-2018 in the market for contracts of professional soccer players in Mexico. The proceeding concluded with the imposition of fines totaling 177.6 million pesos to 17 soccer clubs for carrying out collusiveLeer más

Mexico City, September 1st, 2021.   The Federal Economic Competition Commission (“COFECE”) issued the Emergency Regulatory Provisions to Process Complaints about Possible Violations to the Law for Transparency, Prevention and Elimination of Inappropriate Advertising Practices (”Emergency Provisions”). The Law of Transparency, Prevention and Elimination of Unlawful Practices in Advertising Services ( “Advertising Law”), which enteredLeer más

Mexico City, August 27th, 2021.   On June 3rd, 2021, the Law for Transparency, Prevention and Elimination of Inappropriate Advertising Practices («Law») was published in the Federal Official Gazette and will enter into force on September 1st, 2021. This law will drastically change the advertising market in Mexico across every medium (print, digital, TV &Leer más

No. 02/2021   APRIL The Commission updated the Concentration Notification Guidelines. On April 8th, the Federal Economic Competition Commission (the “Commission”) updated the Concentration Notification Guidelines, through the Federal Official Gazette (“DOF” for its initials in Spanish) to provide a greater certainty to economic agents with respect to the analysis of notified concentrations. Among theLeer más