Argentina opens oil investigation

Tuesday, 17 January 2012

Argentina is investigating five oil companies, including Repsol YPF
Argentina’s National Commission for the Defence of Competition has opened an investigation of the country’s five largest oil companies for fixing the price of fuel.

An interview with Ricardo Napolitani

Friday, 06 January 2012

Ricardo Napolitani has been in charge of Argentina’s National Commission for the Defence of Competition for three years. Faaez Samadi spoke to him at GCR Live’s Law Leaders Europe conference in Brussels about recent competition enforcement developments in Argentina

Oil company gives up on Latin America expansion

Monday, 07 November 2011

Oil company abandons buyout
Argentine oil company Bridas has dropped its bid to buy BP’s 60 per cent stake in Pan American Energy, saying it was unable to gain a ruling on the deal from Argentina’s National Commission for the Defence of Competition (CNDC).

Argentina sets out enforcement framework

Thursday, 20 October 2011

Argentina shines light on decision-making
Argentina’s National Commission for the Defence of Competition has released information about its decisions and judicial sentences for the first time in its history.

Argentina steps closer to leniency policy

Premium Article - Wednesday, 05 January 2011

Argentina’s National Commission for the Defence of Competition (CNDC) has submitted a draft bill to incorporate a leniency programme into the country’s competition law.

Argentina’s government targets national print media

Premium Article - Wednesday, 25 August 2010

Argentina’s President, Cristina Kirchner, has accused two newspapers that control the country’s only newsprint mill of anti-competitive practices.

Argentina to launch fresh telecoms review

Premium Article - Monday, 01 March 2010

Argentina’s National Commission for the Defence of Competition will begin a new antitrust investigation of Telecom Argentina.

Argentina fines telecom companies

Premium Article - Thursday, 07 January 2010

Telefónica must pay a 104 million peso (US$27 million) penalty, after it failed to notify competition authorities of its 2007 acquisition of a controlling stake in Telecom Italia.

Argentina overturns competition clearance decision

Premium Article - Wednesday, 23 December 2009

Argentina’s Secretary of Domestic Trade has overturned a decision that allowed Cablevisión to acquire Multicanal. It is the first time Argentine regulators have revoked antitrust clearance for a merger.

Argentinean court awards private antitrust damages

Premium Article - Thursday, 19 November 2009

For the first time, a court in Argentina has awarded damages in a private antitrust case, paving the way for similar claims.

Argentina: the worst of times

Premium Article - Tuesday, 13 October 2009

The global financial crisis has compounded Argentina’s economic woes and competition has moved yet further down the list of priorities for Argentina’s government. Rosalind Donald investigates

Argentina's Competition Bar

Premium Article - Tuesday, 13 October 2009

Argentina’s competition bar is in stasis as activity at the National Commission for the Defence of Competition slows to an all-time low. Even so, many firms manage to maintain an antitrust capability, as Rosalind Donald discovers.

CNDC to force Telecom Italia sales

Premium Article - Friday, 28 August 2009

Argentina’s antitrust agency, the CNDC, is to instruct Telecom Italia to sell off all its activities in the country to prevent a monopoly developing.

Telecom Italia ruling overturned in Argentina

Premium Article - Wednesday, 29 July 2009

An appeals court in Argentina has overturned a decision of the country's antitrust agency, the CNDC, which stripped Telecom Italia directors of their voting rights on the board of Telecom Argentina.

Telecom Italia may sell Argentina stake

Premium Article - Thursday, 25 June 2009

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Officials from Telecom Italia say they are considering selling the company's stake in Telecom Argentina, which would effectively end a long-running row with the country's antitrust agency, the CNDC.

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