Region: Chile

Chile’s Supreme Court on Monday upheld the competition tribunal’s 2016 ruling that a Telefonica subsidiary’s termination of thousands of mobile lines did not constitute an abuse of dominance.

10 January 2018

Chile’s Supreme Court has overturned a lower court decision that had blocked a consumer collective action against paper product maker SCA, which has been fined for its role in the tissue products cartel.

14 December 2017

Chile’s competition tribunal has thrown out a consumer association’s lawsuit that claimed a supermarket chain had failed to notify a merger, and breached conditions imposed on a previous deal when it acquired a 30-year shopping centre lease.

17 November 2017

Chile's competition enforcer has cleared the $85.4 billion (€72 billion) AT&T/Time Warner merger with behavioural conditions.

05 September 2017

Chile's competition watchdog has referred an investigation of two pharmaceutical laboratory companies to its competition tribunal, recommending a 224 million Chilean pesos (€295,000) fine after finding the companies colluded to rig bids in a state-run pharmaceutical tender.

19 July 2017

Fifty-eight taxi drivers have asked the tribunal of Chile’s competition enforcer to grant an interim measure forcing Uber to hand over sensitive documents, and have indicated they will seek US$23.7 million (€23 million) in fines for abuse of dominance.

14 March 2017

Chile’s competition court has recommended regulatory changes to open up the country’s card payment market to new entrants.

18 January 2017

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