Misdemeanours
Misdemeanours
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Environmental and Spatial Planning Offenses
Administrative embargoes / Precautionary measures / Precautionary seizure
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Labor Misdemeanours
News report / Participation / Infraction notice
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Social Security Misdemeanours
News report / Participation / Infraction notice
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Tax Misdemeanours
News report / Participation / Complaint / Inspection Action
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Misdemeanours for the Irregular Exercise of Activity
News report
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Road Misdemeanours
Mortgage Contract
Sanctions Process Relating to Concentration Operations
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Opening of Inquiry
Carrying out a concentration of companies before having been the subject of a non-opposition decision or prohibited by decision;
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Offenses and Sanctions
Without prejudice to criminal liability and administrative measures that may apply, the following constitute administrative offenses punishable by fines:
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Jurisdictional Resources
Filing an appeal against the final decision, within 30 working days, issued by the Competition Authority to the Competition Regulation and Supervision Court, with merely devolutionary effect, except with regard to decisions that apply measures of a structural nature, the effect of which is suspensive
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Administrative Procedures
Filing an appeal against the decisions of the Competition Authority given in administrative procedures, as well as the ministerial decision provided for in article 34 of the Statutes of the Competition Authority to the Competition, Regulation and Supervision Court, to be processed as a special administrative action, with merely devolutionary effect, unless it is granted, exclusively or cumulatively with other provisional measures, the suspensive effect through the decree of provisional measures
Misdemeanours Competition Rules
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Restrictive Competition Practices
(Agreements, concerted practices and decisions of business associations / Abuse of dominant position / Abuse of economic dependence)
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Sanctioning Process Relating to Restrictive Practices
Request for information by the Competition Authority
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Inquiry Opening Procedure
(Competition Authority Officially / Complaint)
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Transaction Procedure in Inquiry
Request addressed to the Competition Authority where the target expresses its intention to initiate conversations with a view to possibly presenting a transaction proposal
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Inquiry Decision
Decision of the Competition Authority to initiate the investigation, through notification of the Notice of Illegality to the target
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Process Instruction
Notification of the Notice of Illicitness to the target
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Transaction Procedure in Instruction
Presentation of a transaction proposal to the CA as part of the response to the notification of the Notice of Illegality, with the confession of the facts and the recognition of its responsibility for the infraction in question
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Archiving Upon Imposition of Conditions in the Inquiry
Presentation of commitments by the target party to the Competition Authority capable of eliminating the effects on competition resulting from restrictive practices
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Final Decision on Instruction
The CA decides to declare the existence of a practice restrictive of competition, which may be accompanied by a warning or application of fines and other sanctions and measures of conduct or structural nature essential to the cessation of the practice restrictive of competition and/or, where appropriate, consider it justified
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Company Combination Operations
Prior notification of company concentration operations to the Competition Authority
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Concentration Control Procedure
Request to attach the documents and information requested by the Competition Authority in accordance with the approved form
