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Spanish Competition Authority (Madrid)

The National Commission on Markets and Competition (CNMC in Spanish) is an entity that promotes and defends proper functioning of all markets, in the interest of consumers and businesses. It is a public entity with its own autonomous legal status. It is independent from Spain’s central government but is subject to parliamentary control. It began its operations on 7 October 2013.

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Spanish Competition Authority The Spanish Competition Authority agrees to extend for 3 years the remedies agreed as part of the pay-TV merger authorisation in 2015 (Telefónica / DTS)

17 July 2020 101

The CNMC agrees to extend for three years the remedies agreed as part of the merger authorisation between Telefónica and DTS in 2015* All the remedies are maintained for the maximum period of three years, save for the one involving the purchase of exclusive broadcast rights in Spain for (...)

Spanish Competition Authority The Spanish Competition Authority publishes a guide on compliance programmes in relation to antitrust laws

10 June 2020 28

The CNMC publishes a guide on compliance programmes in relation to anti- trust laws* It contains the criteria that the CNMC would take into consideration when analysing the effectiveness of a compliance programme. It includes the consolidated principles used by other competition authorities to (...)

Spanish Competition Authority The Spanish Competition Authority publishes its guidelines on confidentiality claims for competition procedures

4 June 2020 22

The CNMC publishes its guidelines on confidentiality claims for competition procedures* It is providing guidelines to companies and other stakeholders when submitting confidentiality claims to the CNMC It considers the most common cases under the CNMC’s assessment and judgments on the matter. It (...)

Spanish Competition Authority The Spanish Competition Authority receives over 500 complaints and inquiries in the mailbox set up specifically during the COVID-19 pandemic

2 June 2020 92

The CNMC receives over 500 complaints and inquiries through the mailbox set up during the Covid-19 crisis* The CNMC receives over 500 complaints and inquiries through the mailbox set up during the Covid-19 crisis The financial sector (45%) and the health products and food sector (30%) (...)

Spanish Competition Authority The Spanish Competition Authority clears merger of travel agencies (Barceló / Globalia)

8 May 2020 100

The CNMC authorises Barceló to purchase Globalia’s travel agency business* The CNMC has authorised, in the first phase, Barceló to acquire exclusive control of Globalia’s travel agency business. We do not anticipate this operation to have any adverse effects on competition in the markets affected (...)

Spanish Competition Authority The Spanish Competition Authority suspends most procedures in line with the Government’s Royal Decree declaring a state of alert but keeps open the e-services portal for procedures whose parties can prove that delay is against public interest

19 March 2020 226

CoVid-19- Announcement from the CNMC on the timelines for administrative procedures* "Additional provision 3 of Royal Decree 463/2020 of 14 March, declaring the state of alert to manage the health crisis situation caused by COVID-19, provides for the suspension of periods and timelines for (...)

Spanish Competition Authority The Spanish Competition Commission clears a merger in the healthcare industry subject to extensive remedies (Quirón Group / Santa Cristina Clinic)

24 April 2019 55

The CNMC approves the Quirón Group’s acquisition, with a complete package of commitments, of the Santa Cristina Clinic in Albacete*The merger is approved following intense work in the second phase and a complete package of commitments, which was subjected to successive market tests with its (...)

Spanish Competition Authority The Spanish Competition Authority fines an energy operator for abuse of dominant position (Endesa)

21 February 2012 224

Spain: The Comisión de la Competencia (CNC) fines ENDESA for Abuse of Dominant Position* In its decision of 21 February 2012, the CNC Council ruled that Endesa Distribución Eléctrica S.A. (Endesa) committed two abuses of its dominant position on the electric installations market, thereby (...)

Spanish Competition Authority The Spanish Competition Authority fines a distributor of digital terrestrial television for margin squeeze (Abertis Telecom)

8 February 2012 294

Spain: The Comisión Nacional de la Competencia (CNC) fines Abertis Telecom S.A.U. for Margin Squeeze* On 8 February 2012, the CNC Council adopted a decision according to which ABERTIS TELECOM S.A.U. (Abertis) infringed Article 2 of the Spanish Competition Act and Article 102 TFEU by hindering (...)