Uruguay’s competition authorities had a busy 2015, with the largest number of cases processed since 2012. In all, the Commission for the Promotion and Defense of Competition (CPDC) looked at 26 new cases, with 11 carry-overs from the previous year. Out of 37 cases 24 have been fully resolved, leaving 13 cases to be reviewed in 2016. 2015 proved to be the year with the most new accusations for anti-competitive practices since 2011, with a total of 8.
“Most of the cases we looked at in 2015 involved probes into forbidden conduct (43%), followed by preparations which involve market studies (21%). The report also confirmed that “the existence of anti-competitive conducts could not be confirmed for any of the nine cases.
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