The new regulator in competition in all markets came into operation after the appointment of Andrea Marván Saltiel as its president commissioner.
The National Antitrust Commission replaces the Federal Economic Competition Commission, whose last presiding commissioner was Marván Saltiel, and the Federal Telecommunications Institute.
The plenary session of the commission was made up of commissioners Andrea Marván Saltiel, Ana María Reséndiz Mora, Oscar Alejandro Gómez Romero, Ricardo Salgado Perrilliat and Soledad Aragón Martínez, and with Juan Francisco Valerio Méndez as technical secretary, according to a statement from the regulator.
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The new authority also reported that the plenary session agreed that October 17, 20 and 21 will be considered business days, but the procedural deadlines will not run on those dates due to the fact that the commission’s electronic systems were out of operation for several hours and their correct functioning continues to be validated.
In addition, work is being done to conclude the transfer of files and material resources from Cofece to the Antimonopoly Commission, and the regulatory body also continues to carry out the procedures to be fully operational.
He added that by not running the procedural deadlines on the aforementioned days, the rights of economic agents are guaranteed and that they have certainty about the deadlines that operate in the files of which they are part.
He affirmed that the reformed Federal Economic Competition Law provides for a strengthened institutional framework that provides the commission with faster procedures, stricter sanctions and modernized legal mechanisms to safeguard free competition and ensure the efficient performance of the markets.
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