The HCA has a dual role in Hungary, it is the competition enforcer, but it also has consumer protection powers. The market study is relevant in both areas.
On February 4, 2021, the Federal Trade Commission and the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice jointly announced that both agencies would review the processes and procedures.
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President Andres Manuel López Obrador has sent to the
House of Representatives a preferential bill to reform the
Electricity Industry Law, which Congress will be required to
discuss in the next 60 days.
Main Topics of the Bill Include:
Modification of the Dispatch Rules
The bill will change the dispatch rules under which electricity
will be fed to the power system in the following order: First - The hydroelectric power plants owned by the
Mexican Federal Electricity Commission
(
CFE or
Second - The nuclear, geothermal, combined cycle and
In an effort to enhance cartel detection in Kenya, the
Competition Authority of Kenya (
CAK) has launched
an Informants Reward Scheme (
Scheme), which
financially incentivises individuals to blow the whistle on
cartel-type activities.
The CAK identifies cartel-type activities as agreements which
amount to price fixing, market division, collusive tendering,
maintenance of minimum resale prices and controlling production
levels. The Scheme also extends to abuses of dominance,
implementation of notifiable mergers without CAK approval and other
consumer-type offences.
The objective of the Scheme, according to the CAK, is to deepen its intelligence gathering capacities with regard to such
clandestine operations using informants who are close to the
As parts of its strategy to renew and upgrade the rules governing digital services in the EU, the European Commission has now presented what is referred to as the Digital Services Act package.