Beatriz Sánchez-Ortiz is an Associate at MLAB Abogados in Madrid, where she specializes in Spanish and EU competition law. She graduated in Law and International Business Administration and Management from Centro Universitario Villanueva (EBS Madrid). She holds an LL.M degree in European Law from Maastricht University. Her practice covers merger filings, investigations on anti-competitive practices and abuses of dominant position before the CNMC and the European Commission, as well as damages claims before national courts. Beatriz has previously worked at the Cartels & Leniency Division of the Competition Directorate in the Spanish Competition Authority (CNMC).
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The Spanish competition authority (CNMC) has imposed fines on four manufacturers of military equipment, as well as six of their executives, for bid rigging in several Ministry of Defence tenders through two cartels affecting almost 100 contracts worth €60 million. First, the CNMC fined (...)
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The Spanish competition authority (CNMC) has imposed a fine of €194 million on Amazon (€50.5 million) and Apple (€143.6 million) for agreeing and implementing certain restrictions of competition in Amazon’s online marketplace, which affected third party resellers of Apple products and Apple’s (...)
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The Spanish competition authority (CNMC) has fined two companies, Bureau Van Dijk Publicaciones Electrónicas, S.A. (BvD) and Informa D&B, S.A.U. (Informa), as well as their parent companies Moody’s Corporation (Moody’s) and the Spanish Export Credit Agency (CESCE), for having allocated (...)
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The Spanish Supreme Court (Tribunal Supremo) reduced by half the fine imposed by the Spanish Competition Authority (CNMC) on the Spanish association of professional basketball clubs (ACB) for imposing discriminatory conditions on non-member clubs, after finding that the period in which the (...)
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Between 12 and 14 June 2023, the Spanish Supreme Court (Tribunal Supremo) handed down 15 judgments on appeals from different second instance courts in relation to damages claims derived from the trucks cartel sanctioned by the European Commission (EC) in 2016. The Supreme Court endorsed the (...)
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The Spanish competition authority (CNMC) has found that the two main taxi associations of the Spanish region of Murcia (Radio Taxi Murcia and TeleTaxi Murcia) formed a cartel between December 2016 and July 2019, which qualified as a single and continuous infringement of article 1 of the (...)
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The Spanish Competition Authority (CNMC) has closed by means of commitment decisions (‘terminación convencional’) two infringement proceedings initiated in 2020 in the markets for the wholesale distribution of pharmaceutical products and non-life insurance in Spain. Unilateral termination of (...)
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The Spanish Competition Authority (CNMC) has closed by means of commitment decisions (‘terminación convencional’) two infringement proceedings initiated in 2020 in the markets for the wholesale distribution of pharmaceutical products and non-life insurance in Spain. Online resale price (...)
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The Spanish Competition Authority (CNMC) has imposed a fine of €10.25 million on the Leadiant group (Essetifin SpA, Leadiant Biosciences Ltd and Leadiant GmbH, jointly referred as Leadiant) for abusing its dominant position as the marketer of the sole medicine available in Spain for the (...)
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The Spanish competition authority (CNMC) has imposed a €38.93 million fine on pharmaceutical company Merck Sharp and Dohme (MSD) for abusing its dominant position in the market for contraceptive vaginal rings from June 2017 to April 2018 by means of unfounded legal actions intended to harass a (...)
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The Audiencia Provincial de León has dismissed the appeals lodged by two truck manufacturers, Volvo and DAF Trucks, against a commercial court judgment which awarded damages amounting to €10,906 after the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) clarified the temporal application of the (...)
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The Audiencia Nacional has annulled a decision of the Spanish competition authority (CNMC) fining the car wash equipment maker Istobal for refusing to cooperate with independent repairers of its machines –called SATs (technical assistance services)–, thus breaching Articles 1 and 2 of the (...)
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The Spanish competition authority (CNMC) has imposed fines amounting to €203.6 million on the six main national construction companies (Acciona Construcción, Dragados, FCC Construcción, Ferrovial Construcción, Obrascón Huarte Lain and Sacyr Construcción) for manipulating public tenders to (...)
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The Audiencia Nacional has upheld the appeals filed by eleven concrete companies and a manager against a decision of the Spanish competition authority (CNMC) which sanctioned them for operating a cartel in the supply of concrete market in the Asturias region, thereby incurring a single and (...)
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The Audiencia Nacional has annulled a decision of the Spanish competition authority (CNMC) fining two security companies and their managers for having agreed to share the Spanish cash-in-transit and cash-handling market, fix prices and exchange commercially sensitive information. Following (...)
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The Spanish Competition Authority (CNMC) has imposed on the renewable energy firm Enel Green Power S.L.(Enel Green) a EUR 4.9 million fine for abusing its dominant position in the market of access to the electrical transmission network, in particular, in two access nodes. The conduct (...)
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The Provincial Court of Madrid (Audiencia Provincial de Madrid) has overturned a first instance judgment which ordered insurance companies Asefa, S.A. Compañía Española de Seguros y Reaseguros (Asefa) and Scor Global P&C, S.E (Scor) to pay EUR 2.6 million to the property developer Realia (...)
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The Spanish Competition Authority (CNMC) has imposed on the kennel association Real Sociedad Canina de España (RSCE) a EUR 142,996 fine for deterring the activity of rival associations and discriminating canine judges. According to the CNMC, the conduct constitutes an abuse of dominant (...)
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The Audiencia Nacional has partially accepted the appeals brought by several Balearic transport operators, thus quashing a decision of the Spanish Competition Authority (CNMC) which imposed a fine on these companies for implementing a cartel in the market of school transport services. The (...)
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The Spanish Competition Authority (CNMC) has imposed a EUR 24 million fine on three steel companies for constituting two cartels consisting of two exchanges of information between competitors, on the one hand between AG Siderúrgica Balboa, S.A. (BALBOA) and Sidenor Aceros Especiales, (...)
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The Spanish Competition Authority (CNMC) has imposed on Sociedad Estatal Correos y Telégrafos, S.A., S.M.E.(CORREOS), the state-owned postal service provider in Spain, a EUR 32.6 million fine for the implementation of an anticompetitive discount scheme for large business customers. The conduct (...)
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The Audiencia Nacional has accepted the appeals brought by four rail equipment companies and several individuals, thus quashing a decision of the Spanish Competition Authority (CNMC) which imposed a fine on these companies and individuals for rigging bids in tenders related to the construction (...)
