Carolina Luna Gordo is Press Officer for Competition Policy at European Commission. Previously, Ms. Luna was an Associate at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. Carolina Luna’s practice focuses on EC and Spanish antitrust law. She received a MA in European Law and Economic Analysis from the College of Europe and obtained her Law degree in 2009 from the University of Zaragoza (Spain). Ms. Luna also holds a Business degree and a Master in International Management from the University of Zaragoza.
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1. Background The judgment in question casts uncertainty over Spain’s implementation of certain objectives set forth in the Digital Agenda – namely, the introduction of the fourth generation of mobile telephony (Long Term Evolution, “LTE”) and ensuring ultrafast mobile broadband coverage for (...)
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Background On March 8, 2006 Aníbal S.L. – a firm providing services on the international passenger bus route Lisbon-Madrid-Paris, for which they held the mandatory administrative authorisation – sent a letter of complaint against the concessionaire of the Madrid Southern Bus Station (Esamsa) (...)
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I. The Spanish generation market As has been described in previous bulletin articles the Spanish generation market is extremely complex and heavily intervened by burdensome regulation. In a nutshell, tenders (pools) are organised every hour of the day by a public entity in order to fulfil (...)
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I. Background On July 11, 2001, the Spanish Competition Authority (Tribunal de Defensa de la Competencia, TDC) resolved the case in its resolution number 490/00. In it, it was decided that Repsol S.A. had engaged in a practice prohibited by Article 1.1 of the Act 16/1989 (the former (...)
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On November 22, 2002, the National Energy Agency (Comisión Nacional de la Energía) sent a letter of complaint to the Service of Competition Defense (Servicio de Defensa de la Competencia) related to the contract signed on July 27, 2001 between Enagás, SA and Gas Natural Comercializadora, at (...)
