Monopolio

Senate approves rule against monopolies

Legislators turns to San Lazaro the opinion that prohibits actions that threaten the competition.

MEXICO CITY (26 / ABR / 2014) .- The Full Senate approved on the whole the opinion issued by the new Competition Law, which seeks to give legal certainty to consumers and eliminate monopolies, with new rules access to businesses and economic markets.

During the regular session yesterday and a long debate, the reforms include changes to the Federal Penal Code and that provide millions sanctions on companies that promote hoarding, monopolies and were endorsed by 105 in favor, four against and one abstention concentrations in illicit markets.

PAN Senator Hector Larios grandstand exposed the importance of this reform and said that according to the OECD, "in Mexico there are markets where consumers pay up to 30% more of a premium for lack of jurisdiction or manipulation of markets rather ".

"Today we are still in Mexico, any baptized as a two-country, two suppliers of corn flour, which is the essential input tortilla; two chains of cinemas; two television channels; two producers of beer; two major soft drink bottlers; a major producer of bread; two major producers and distributors of chicken, a high concentration of banks, cement, in iron, in telecommunications, aviation, in many markets. "

For his part, Senator PRI Ascension José Orihuela, said that the country consumers spend about 42% additional for the existence of markets in some sectors of the economy with high concentration, ie with little or no competition. "The concentrated markets and monopolies to set excessive prices for goods and services, reduce the ability of consumption and household savings, especially those most vulnerable."

Alejandro Encinas, the PRD, criticized on related markets, the new law contains no definition of related market, nor contains a number of elements to typify.

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CHAIR National Hydrocarbons Commission

Enrique Peña Nieto The President sent to the Senate the shortlist to head the National Hydrocarbons Commission, which is comprised of Guillermo Ignacio García Alcocer, Oscar Flores and Jaime Roldán Juan Carlos Zepeda Molina. García Alcocer, currently CEO of Exploration and Exploitation of Hydrocarbons, is a graduate degree in Economics from the Mexican Autonomous Technological Institute (ITAM).

• Pena and unions addressed Telecom

The President of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto, held a meeting with leaders of the National Union of Workers, which stressed "the need to create more jobs and better paid." Among the topics highlighted the Federal Telecommunications Act, the recovery of the purchasing power of wages, economic growth and strengthening the domestic market. In Los Pinos leaders Telephone Workers Union, Francisco Hernández participated; of the Association of Airline Pilots, Carlos Díaz Chávez, and the Union of Workers of the UNAM, Agustín Rodríguez.

Constitutional amendments and secondary legislation that drives its management "are premised, at all times, the interests of the workers."

The Government and the UNT share objectives on the need to generate more and better paid jobs, the president said, and recalled that the purpose of structural reforms is to increase the country's productivity and benefit workers.

"I will continue pending reforms to secondary laws respect the spirit and the letter" of the constitutional changes, and am in favor of such meetings with the UNT to discuss issues of common interest.

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