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Tem início a 223ª sessão de julgamento do Cade

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Publicado em 07/02/2024 10h01

OTribunal do Conselho Administrativo de Defesa Econômica (Cade) deu início à 223ª Sessão Ordinária de Julgamento nesta quarta-feira (07/02).

Ao todo, quatro processos estão na pauta para votação pelo colegiado. Acompanhe as discussões pelo canal do Cade no YouTube. 

1. Processo Administrativo nº 08700.009165/2015-56 

Representados: Elster Medição de Água S/A, FAE Ferragens e Indústria de Hidrômetros S/A, Itron Soluções para Energia e Água Ltda./Accell Soluções para Energia e Água Ltda., LAO Indústria Ltda., Sappel do Brasil Ltda./Diehl Metering Indústria de Sistema de Medição Ltda., Sensus Metering Systems do Brasil Ltda., Saga Medição Ltda., Vector Sistemas de Medição Ltda. e pessoas físicas.  

Relator: conselheiro Victor Oliveira Fernandes 

2. Embargos de Declaração do Processo Administrativo nº 08700.004974/2015-71 

Embargantes: Conselho Regional dos Corretores de Imóveis da 14ª região – CRECI-MS, Sindicato dos Corretores de Imóveis no Estado de Mato Grosso do Sul – SINDIMÓVEIS-MS, Sindicato de Habitação de Mato Grosso do Sul – SECOVI/MS. 

Interessados: Conselho Federal de Corretores de Imóveis – COFECI; do Conselho Regional dos Corretores de Imóveis da 23ª Região – CRECI/PI; do Conselho Regional dos Corretores de Imóveis da 18ª Região – CRECI/AM-RR; do Conselho Regional dos Corretores de Imóveis da 3ª Região – CRECI-RS, do Conselho Regional dos Corretores de Imóveis da 6ª Região – CRECI-PR e demais pessoas jurídicas.  

Relator: conselheiro Gustavo Augusto 

3. Embargos de Declaração do TCC nº 08700.006166/2023-59 

Embargante: HNK BR Indústria de Bebidas Ltda. 

Interessada: Ambev S.A. 

Relator: presidente Alexandre Cordeiro 

4. Inquérito Administrativo nº 08700.003510/2021-96 

Representados: Andrade Gutierrez Engenharia S.A., CCI Construções Ltda. (“CCI”), Construcap CCPS Engenharia e Comércio S.A. (“Construcap”), Construções e Comércio Camargo Corrêa S.A. (“Camargo Corrêa”), Construtora Queiroz Galvão S.A. (“Queiroz Galvão”), Estacon Engenharia S.A. (“Estacon”). 

Relator: conselheiro Gustavo Augusto  

Referral of the proposed subsidy to the English National Opera Subsidy by The Arts Council of England

The Subsidy Advice Unit (SAU) has accepted a request for a report from The Arts Council of England (Arts Council England) concerning the proposed subsidy to the English National Opera.From:Competition and Markets AuthorityPublished7 February 2024Case type:SAU referralCase state:OpenMarket sector:Recreation and leisureOpened:7 February 2024

Contents

1. Administrative timetable
2. Request from Arts Council England
3. Information about the subsidy provided by Arts Council England
4. Information for third parties
   1. Notes to third parties wishing to make a submission
5. Contacts

Administrative timetable

Request from Arts Council England

6 February 2024: The SAU has accepted a request for a report from Arts Council England concerning a proposed subsidy to the English National Opera. This request relates to a Subsidy of Particular Interest.

The SAU will prepare a report, which will provide an evaluation of the Arts Council England assessment of whether the subsidy complies with the subsidy control requirements (Assessment of Compliance). The SAU will complete its report within 30 working days.

Information about the subsidy provided by Arts Council England

The Arts Council of England (the Arts Council) proposes providing a subsidy of £24m to the English National Opera (ENO).

The subsidy will be directed towards costs which ENO is expected to incur between 1 April 2024 and 31 March 2026. Following the announcement that ENO will be moving operations to Greater Manchester, the Arts Council wishes to subsidise some of the initial costs relating to the ENO’s transition to a new operating model, with activities and operations in both London and Greater Manchester.

The majority of the funding however is to enable Arts Council to continue to support ENO’s public facing arts activity in line with the Arts Council’s 10-year Strategy ‘Let’s Create’.

This proposed subsidy of £24m is considered to be separate to the subsidy of £11.46m to the ENO which the Subsidy Advice Unit reported upon in May 2023. This is because that funding of £11.46m, and the activities it supported, ended on 31 March 2024. However, the Arts Council recognises that this latest subsidy partly represents a continuation of operational funding that ENO has previously received from the Arts Council from 1994 to date as set out in the Arts Council’s annual accounts.

Information for third parties

If you wish to comment on matters relevant to the SAU’s evaluation of the Assessment of Compliance concerning Arts Council England’s proposed subsidy, please send your comments before 5pm on the date stipulated in the timetable above. For guidance on representations relevant to the Assessment of Compliance, see the section on reporting period and transparency in the Operation of the subsidy control functions of the Subsidy Advice Unit.

Please send your submissions to us at: sau-aceeno2024@cma.gov.uk copying the public authority: enquiries@artscouncil.org.uk

Please also provide a contact address and explain in what capacity you are making the submission (for example, as an individual or a representative of a business or organisation).

Notes to third parties wishing to make a submission

The SAU will only take your submission into account if it can be shared with Arts Council England. The SAU will send a copy of your submission to Arts Council England together with its report. This is to allow the public authority to take account of the submission in its decision as to whether to grant or modify the subsidy or its assessment. We therefore ask that you provide express consent for your full and unredacted submission to be shared. We also encourage you to share your submission directly with Arts Council England using the email address provided above.

The SAU may use the information you provide in its published report. Therefore, you should indicate in your submission whether any specified parts of it are commercially confidential. If the SAU wishes to refer in its published report to material identified as confidential, it will contact you in advance.

For further details on confidentiality of third party submissions, see identifying confidential information in the Operation of the subsidy control functions of the Subsidy Advice Unit.

Referral of the proposed subsidy for the Gobbins Phase 2 project by Belfast City Council

The Subsidy Advice Unit (SAU) has accepted a request for a report from Belfast City Council (BCC) concerning a proposed subsidy for the Gobbins Phase 2 projectFrom:Competition and Markets AuthorityPublished7 February 2024Case type:SAU referralCase state:OpenMarket sector:Recreation and leisureOpened:6 February 2024

Contents

1. Administrative timetable
2. Request from BCC
3. Information about the subsidy provided by BCC
4. Information for third parties
   1. Notes to third parties wishing to make a submission
5. Contacts

Administrative timetable

Request from BCC

6 February 2024: The SAU has accepted a request for a report from BCC in relation to the proposed subsidy for the Gobbins Phase 2 Project. This request relates to a Subsidy of Particular Interest.

The SAU will prepare a report, which will provide an evaluation of BCC’s assessment of whether the subsidy complies with the subsidy control requirements (Assessment of Compliance). The SAU will complete its report within 30 working days.

Information about the subsidy provided by BCC

Belfast City Council as Accountable Body for the Belfast Region City Deal is proposing to contribute public funding to The Gobbins Phase 2 project to enhance and expand the existing visitor experience. The beneficiary of the subsidy is Mid and East Antrim Borough Council (MEABC), which is the project sponsor.

The estimated total value of the project is £13.6 million which comprises a subsidy of £12.6million from Belfast City Council. MEABC will contribute £1 million to the project.

Belfast City Council will be receiving funding for this project from the Department for Economy under the agreed terms of the Belfast Region City Deal signed in December 2021.The specific policy objective that this subsidy aims to address is to sustainably grow the tourism market in Northern Ireland (NI) by encouraging more visitors to NI, who stay longer and spend more across the region.

Without providing a subsidy the market alone will not deliver visitor attractions of sufficient scale across the region to meet the policy objective. The subsidy will be provided to MEABC over the delivery period of the project (2024-2028) and will be conditional on the terms and conditions of a Contract for Funding that will be signed between the Department for Economy and the Accountable Body and a Funding Agreement that will be signed between the Accountable Body and MEABC.

Information for third parties

If you wish to comment on matters relevant to the SAU’s evaluation of the Assessment of Compliance concerning BCC’s proposed subsidy, please send your comments before 5pm on the date stipulated in the timetable above. For guidance on representations relevant to the Assessment of Compliance, see the section on reporting period and transparency in the Operation of the subsidy control functions of the Subsidy Advice Unit.

Please send your submissions to us at: sau-gobbinscliff@cma.gov.uk, copying the public authority: brcd@belfastcity.gov.uk

Please also provide a contact address and explain in what capacity you are making the submission (for example, as an individual or a representative of a business or organisation).

Notes to third parties wishing to make a submission

• the SAU will only take your submission into account if it can be shared with BCC. The SAU will send a copy of your submission to BCC together with its report. This is to allow the public authority to take account of the submission in its decision as to whether to grant or modify the subsidy or its assessment. We therefore ask that you provide express consent for your full and unredacted submission to be shared. We also encourage you to share your submission directly with BCC using the email address provided above
• the SAU may use the information you provide in its published report. Therefore, you should indicate in your submission whether any specified parts of it are commercially confidential. If the SAU wishes to refer in its published report to material identified as confidential, it will contact you in advance
• for further details on confidentiality of third party submissions, see identifying confidential information in the Operation of the subsidy control functions of the Subsidy Advice Unit

Contacts

• SAU project team: sau-gobbinscliff@cma.gov.uk
• CMA press team: 020 3738 6460 or press@cma.gov.uk

Published 7 February 2024

Access fuel price data

Links to data provided by suppliers as part of the temporary road fuel price open data scheme.From:Competition and Markets AuthorityPublished31 August 2023Last updated7 February 2024 — See all updatesGet emails about this pagePrint this page

The temporary scheme provides recent pricing data, in a way that is open to third party developers. This is not the complete solution that we recommended in our market study.

We recognise the interim scheme is limited and there will sometimes be a delay between the setting of prices, the publication of price data, and the prices being available in third-party apps. Customers should always check the price displayed at the forecourt before purchasing road fuel.

The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero has published its consultation on the end-state solution. Their consultation closes at 11.59pm on 12 March 2024.

The CMA has included a list of the participants in the temporary scheme, and a link to the data provided. The CMA does not validate the data.

Participating retailers

La CNMC investiga posibles prácticas anticompetitivas en el mercado de servicios de consultoría y asistencia técnica en ingeniería

06 Feb 2024 |Competencia Nota de prensa

• Afectarían al reparto de licitaciones convocadas para la prestación de servicios de consultoría y asistencia técnica en ingeniería, en particular, de planificación, construcción y explotación de carreteras.
• Del 30 de enero al 2 de febrero la CNMC realizó inspecciones en las sedes de varias empresas que operan en ese mercado.
• Estas inspecciones constituyen un paso preliminar a la posible incoación de un expediente sancionador.

La Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC) investiga posibles prácticas anticompetitivas en el mercado de servicios de consultoría y asistencia técnica en ingeniería. En concreto, consistirían en acuerdos y/o prácticas concertadas de reparto de licitaciones convocadas para la prestación de servicios de consultoría y asistencia técnica en ingeniería, en particular, de planificación, construcción y explotación de carreteras. Las inspecciones se llevaron a cabo entre el 30 de enero y el 2 de febrero de 2024.

Estas inspecciones suponen un paso preliminar en el proceso de investigación de las supuestas conductas anticompetitivas y no prejuzgan el resultado de la investigación ni la culpabilidad de las empresas inspeccionadas. Si como resultado de la inspección se encontrasen indicios de prácticas prohibidas se incoará un expediente sancionador.

La CNMC recuerda que los acuerdos entre competidores constituyen una infracción muy grave de la legislación de competencia, que puede conllevar multas de hasta el 10 % del volumen de negocios total de las empresas infractoras. De hecho, la investigación de los cárteles constituye una de las prioridades de actuación de la CNMC, dada la especial gravedad de sus consecuencias sobre los consumidores y el correcto funcionamiento de los mercados.

Para ello se cuenta, entre otros, con el programa de clemencia que permite a las empresas que forman parte de un cártel beneficiarse de la exención del pago de la multa, siempre y cuando aporten elementos de prueba que posibiliten a la CNMC su detección, o de una reducción del importe de la multa que pudiera imponérsele, si aporta información con valor añadido significativo, en relación con una investigación ya iniciada por la CNMC.

Además de la exención del pago de la multa o la reducción de su cuantía, las empresas solicitantes de clemencia también quedan exceptuadas de la prohibición de contratar establecida en el artículo 71 de la Ley de Contratos del Sector Público para los sancionados por infracción grave en materia de falseamiento de la competencia. Ello es así en aplicación del artículo 72.5 de la citada ley, y de los artículos 65.4 y 66.5 de la Ley de Defensa de la Competencia, en los que se regula el programa de clemencia.

La CNMC también dispone de una plataforma online de colaboración ciudadana para la detección de cárteles. Esta plataforma, denominada Sistema de Informantes de Competencia Anónimos (SICA), permite informar de forma anónima sobre prácticas anticompetitivas, tales como acuerdos entre empresas competidoras para la fijación de precios u otras condiciones comerciales, reparto de los mercados o de los clientes, o repartos fraudulentos de las licitaciones públicas o privadas.
 
Contenido relacionado:

• Guía sobre contratación pública
• Programa de clemencia
• Sistema de Informantes de Competencia Anónimos (SICA)
• Comunicación 1/2023, de 13 de junio (prohibición de contratar)

 Nota de prensa 

 Press release

Documento no oficial destinado a los medios de comunicación y que no vincula a la CNMC.  Reproducción permitida solo si se cita a la fuente.

Casos

CADE

Ato de concentração nº 08700.007611/2023-06

Requerentes: Sinoscar S.A. e Brozauto Veículos e Peças Ltda. Advogados: Eduardo Caminati, Marcio Bueno, Guilherme Misale e Robeto Potter. Com fulcro no §1º do art. 50 da Lei 9.784, de 1999, integro as razões do Parecer nº 4/2024/CGAA2/SGA1/SG (SEI 1343715) à presente decisão, inclusive quanto à sua motivação. Nos termos dos arts. 13, XII, e 57, I, da Lei nº 12.529, de 2011, decido pela aprovação sem restrições do presente ato de concentração.

Ato de Concentração nº 08700.000566/2024-31

Requerentes: SPE SOT IX Incorporações SPE Ltda. e RJ Niterói Icaraí Ltda. Advogados: Joyce Midori Honda, Rodrigo Belon, Rafaella Schwartz e Arthur Guarani Moreira. Decido pela aprovação sem restrições.

Ato de Concentração nº 08700.000511/2024-21

Requerentes: Vinci Shopping Centers Fundo de Investimento Imobiliário – FII e ALLOS S.A. Advogados: Rafael Magalhães Florence, Juliana de Castro Santos Ludmer, Barbara Rosenberg, Luís Bernardo Coelho Cascão e outros. Decido pela aprovação sem restrições.

Ato de Concentração nº 08700.000510/2024-87

Requerentes: Vinci Shopping Centers Fundo de Investimento Imobiliário – FII e ALLOS S.A. Advogados: Rafael Magalhães Florence, Juliana de Castro Santos Ludmer, Barbara Rosenberg, Luís Bernardo Coelho Cascão e outros. Decido pela aprovação sem restrições.

Ato de Concentração nº 08700.000402/2024-12

Requerentes: Minerva S.A e Elera Renováveis S.A. Advogados: Bernardo Cascão, André Luís Menegatti e Maria Julia Medina Pena. Decido pela aprovação sem restrições.

Ato de Concentração nº 08700.000200/2024-62

Requerentes: EQS Engenharia S.A. e Bratec Máquinas e Serviços Ltda. Advogado: Rodrigo Zingales Oller do Nascimento. Decido pela aprovação sem restrições.

Ato de Concentração nº 08700.000415/2024-83

Requerentes: Sequoia Logística e Transportes S.A. e Move3 Administração e Participações S.A. Advogados: Maria Eugênia Novis e João Felipe Achcar de Azambuja. Decido pela aprovação sem restrições.

CMA

• AlphaTheta / Serato merger inquiryThe CMA is investigating the anticipated acquisition by AlphaTheta Corporation of Serato Audio Research Limited
  • Updated: 7 February 2024

Comissão Europeia

AURELIUS / DAYCO’S PROPULSION SOLUTIONS

Merger

M.11427

Last decision date: 06.02.2024 Simplified procedure