Highlights

15 years of competition by former Presidents of the AdC

In celebration of the 15th anniversary of the Portuguese Competition Authority (Autoridade da Concorrência – AdC), the Público newspaper published articles discussing the importance of competition policy in Portugal authored by the current President of the AdC and by the three former presidents of the agency (Portuguese version only):

Margarida Matos Rosa - Direito à Concorrência (the right to competition)

António Ferreira Gomes - Com concorrência todos ganhamos (With competition, everybody wins)

Manuel Sebastião - Concorrência. Um valor, uma lei, uma instituição, uma praxis (Competition. A value, a law, an institution, a custom)

Abel Mateus - Portugal precisa de uma política de concorrência mais ativa (Portugal needs to be more active in competition policy)

Open seminar on competition in public procurement

Nuno Cunha Rodrigues, professor at the University of Lisbon School of Law (Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa - FDUL), will discuss the challenges of competition enforcers in public procurement at the next open seminar on 12 April at 5 pm.
The event will take place at the Abel Mateus Competition Library (premises of the AdC at Avenida de Berna, 19, 1stfloor - Lisbon) and is subject to registration to info@concorrencia.pt.

CompCast – Competition talks: “Competition and innovation in retail banking”

Competition and innovation in retail banking discussed by Julie Bon, Director of Economics at the UK Competition and Markets Authority, with the Chief-Economist of the AdC Ana Sofia Rodrigues in the latest edition of the AdC podcast series “CompCast – Competition talks”.

Listen to the podcast