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What is a cartel?

A cartel is an illegal agreement between competing companies to coordinate their actions on the market in order to eliminate the risk and uncertainty in their conduct in the market. It leads to higher prices, less innovation and quality, and ultimately to a less competitive economy. The mission of the AdC is to defend and promote competition to avoid these risks and deliver the benefits of competition to society, by detecting, investigating and sanctioning these illegal practices.

Open Seminar “Unlocking Digital Competition – a perspective from the Furman Report”

"Unlocking Digital Competition – a perspective from the Furman Report " was the topic of the AdC Open Seminar with Amelia Fletcher, OBE, on September 12th 2019.
Amelia Fletcher is a Professor of Competition Policy at University of East Anglia, Non-Executive Director at the Competition and Markets Authority, the Financial Conduct Authority and the Payment Systems Regulator, and a member of the Enforcement Decision Panel at Ofgem.
Read the presentation here.

AdC na Comissão de Economia, Inovação e Obras Públicas da Assembleia da República.

The president of the AdC, Margarida Matos Rosa, was on Wednesday, July 3, to present the Activity Plan for 2019 and the balance of activity for 2018, at the annual audition of the Committee on Economy, Innovation and Public Works (CEIOP) of the Portuguese Parliament.

Margarida Matos Rosa was also in the Parliament at the request of the PCP to talk about the proceedings in the wholesale distribution sector and of the PSD on the cartel in public works.

Read the presentation here (in Portuguese only).

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