The Senate received the reform of President Claudia Shainbaum this Friday to eliminate Federal Economic Competition Commission (COFE) and create a new National Commission for Combating Antimonopolis.
According to this initiative, this new commission will be a decentralized state body attached to Secretariat of the economy With advanced abilities and enhanced structure, which leaves the old man “Autonomous body and not paying attention to the state“, According to the document.
The project provides that National Commission for Antimonopolis He has a plenary supply consisting of five commissioners appointed by the president and is ratified by the Senate. His task would be for seven years of impeccable.
The document sent by the Shainbaum provides “the division between the government that is investigating, and those who authorize, as well as its technical independence, autonomy of management and its own heritage.”
Among the new provisions, the new commission can raise the procedures for verifying conformity, qualifications of confidential information and the completion of the surveys and data collection before the rank of law.
In addition, their powers are strengthened for the practice of inspection visits, require documents and coordination with international authorities.
Sanctions harden and include fines up to 300 thousand Units of measurement and updates (UMA), The equivalent of almost 33.9 million pesos, as well as temporary disqualification in public tenders.
The document sent by the President of Mexico states that “the extinct coffee today has become an organization outside the state, which sometimes protected private interests over a common well.”
Instead, the presidential reform mentions, the new commission restores Economic priest of the state, “Correct abuses by power, which has become a rule, groups that have seen only for their interests.”
New provisions that are moving The study of illegal concentrations From one to three years, threshold values for notification will be updated, and the mechanisms of collective actions are included in such a way that consumers can apply for damage without expecting the firmness of the administrative permit.
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From the point of view of telecommunications and broadcasting, National Antimonopoly Commission He is responsible for control over the predominance of companies and market concentration.
Change should be discussed in the commissions The upper congress and then approved in the plenar The Chamber of DeputiesBefore its publication and entry into force.
With this reform, the Mexican government also intends to comply with the international standards of the organization for economic cooperation and development (OESR) and obligations Mexican agreement, United States and Canada (T-MEC)To contribute to economic competence and autonomy in the decisions of this new decentralized public body.
With information EFE.