Decision No. 130 – Case C 239-12 – Lawsuit by Beatriz Zuberman Comercializadora E.I.R.L. against One Smart Star Number Chile S.A.
The Competition Tribunal accepted a lawsuit by Beatriz Lea Zuberman Comercializadora E.I.R.L. (Isracon) against One Smart Star Number Chile S.A. (OSS), declaring that the latter infringed letter c) of article 3 of Decree Law M° 211, by acts of unfair competition with the objective of reaching a dominant, or even monopoly, position in the market […]
Decision No. 129 – Case C 210-10 – Lawsuit by AFEX Transferencias y Cambios S.A. and other against Banco de Chile
The Competition Tribunal dismissed a lawsuit by AFEX Transferencias y Cambios Ltda. And AFEX Agentes de Valores Ltda. (from now on, AFEX) against Banco de Chile, without costs. The lawsuit stated that the unilateral closure of 26 of AFEX’s banking accounts by Banco de Chile was against free competition. The decision stated that conditions to […]
Decision No. 128 – Case C 177-08 – Lawsuit by the National Economic Prosecutor’s Office against ACHAP A.G. and others
The Competition Tribunal accepted partially the lawsuit by the National Economic Prosecutor’s Office against Asociación Chilena de Agencias de Publicidad (ACHAP), its Executive President, seven of its directors and eleven of its associate advertising agencies, for having incurred in infractions to competition law, by a collective boycott against tender processes issued in 2008 by Metro […]
Decision No. 127 – Case C 238-12 – Lawsuit by Actigen Nova S.A. against Bioagro S.A.
The Competition Tribunal dismissed a lawsuit by Actigen Nova S.A. against Bioagro S.A. for alleged infractions to article 3 of Decree Law N° 211, consisting in preventing entry of new agents to the market of chitin and chitosan derived products for resistance induction in vegetables, for agricultural use, by non-compete clauses that were included in […]
Decision No. 126 – Case C 231-11 – Lawsuit by ACAM S.A. against Comercial e Industrial Silfa Ltda.
The Competition Tribunal stated that this lawsuit partially exceded the statute of limitations. Regarding the accusations that did not exceed them, the Tribunal dismissed the lawsuit by ACAM against Silfa, given that the alleged infractions were not proven in the proceeding, and there were no indicators that would have allowed to infer that Silfa’s conducts […]
Decision No. 125 – Case C 229-11 –Lawsuit by Laboratorio Recalcine S.A. against Roche Chile Ltda.
The Competition Tribunal dismissed a lawsuit by Laboratorios Recalcine S.A. against Roche Chile Limitada in all its parts, since the conducts that Recalcine reported were not proven in the proceeding, and no evidence from which the conducts could be inferred was presented. Laboratorios Recalcine filed a lawsuit against Roche Chile Limitada, stating that the defendant […]
Decision No. 124 – Case C 203-10 –Lawsuit by the National Economic Prosecutor’s Office against Cámara de Comercio de Santiago A.G.
The Competition Tribunal dismissed the National Economic Prosecutor’s Office’s lawsuit against Cámara de Comercio de Santiago A.G. (CCS), for allegedly engaging in actions against free competition, by conditioning the renewal of the supply contract of Boletín de Informaciones Comerciales (“BIC”) with the company SIISA, to the modification of the contract and the abandonment of the […]
Decision No. 123 – Case C 209-10 –Lawsuit by Sociedad Gaete y Navarrete Limitada against Fisco de Chile
The Competition Tribunal dismissed a lawsuit by Sociedad Comercial Gaete y Navarrete against Fisco de Chile and Dirección de Bienestar Social de la Armada, for alleged predatory and disloyal competition practices, that would have been carried out in the latter institution’s supermarket, in the city of Puerto Williams. Regarding Fisco-Armada de Chile, the Tribunal considered […]
Decision No. 122 – Case C 207-10 –Lawsuit by the National Economic Prosecutor’s Office against Tecumseh Do Brasil Ltda. And other
On June 14, 2012, the Competition Tribunal ruled in favor of the National Economic Prosecutor Office’s lawsuit against Tecumseh Do Brasil and Whirlpool S.A., who were accused of having violated article 3 of D.L. N° 211, by adopting and implementing an agreement with the objective of artificially raising the price of low potency hermetic compressors […]
Decision No. 121 – Case C 219-11 –Lawsuit by Naviera Valdivia and others against Ministerio de Obras Públicas and others
The Competition Tribunal ruled in favor of Naviera Valdivia Limitada, Comercial Selva EIRL and Ricardo da Bove Fierro, in a lawsuit against Fisco de Chile and Sociedad Marítima y Comercial Somarco Limitada (Somarco), for actions against free competition. Fisco de Chile designed a tender that allowed the concessionaire to charge exclusionary rates, and Somarco –the […]