2015 Latin American Competition Forum
23-24 September 2015 Montego Bay, Jamaica
Discussions during the 13th meeting of the LACF focused on Groceries Sector and Competition Advocacy. See below all meeting materials. For more work on Latin America, see Competition Law and Policy in Latin America DOWNLOAD THE 2015 PROGRAMME (pdf)
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SESSION I. STRUCTURAL ISSUES IN THE GROCERIES SECTOR: MERGERS AND REGULATORY ISSUES |
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The retail sector continues to be of high interest for competition officials. The discussion focused on the technical nature of merger review in the groceries sector, that potentially raises concerns about the capacity of a competition authority to properly assess the effect of a merger that might affect tens or hundred of local markets in different ways. More information on the scope of the discussion can be found in the call for contributions for each session below.
View some of our previous discussions in relation to the topic:
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SESSION II. MEASURING COMPETITION ADVOCACY'S IMPACT IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN |
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Last year's discussion focused on mainstreaming competition policy. This year's discussion focused on the need of getting better metrics of the advocacy work in order to improve the mainstreaming of competition policy in the main government economic agenda.
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SESSION III. COMPETITION ISSUES IN THE GROCERIES SECTOR: FOCUS ON CONDUCT |
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This session focused on some potentially anticompetitive practices of the supermarkets sector. These may feature in merger analysis but more usually will be the subject of abuse of dominance (and similar), vertical agreements or cartel investigations or possibly a result of government regulation, such as through the use of codes of conduct.ents of the case.
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FINAL SESSION. EVALUATION AND PROPOSALS FOR FUTURE WORK |
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