An interview with Eduardo Prieto Kessler

Spain’s National Commission for Markets and Competition was formed in 2013 through a merger between the country’s former specialist competition enforcer and several sectoral regulators. Tom Webb spoke with Eduardo Prieto Kessler, the head of the CNMC’s competition division, about the development of the agency’s cartel enforcement, dawn raids, and its controversial move towards levying more fines on individuals and seeking to disqualify companies from public tenders