{"id":5742,"date":"2023-12-20T13:01:16","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T16:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cascione.com.br\/?p=5742"},"modified":"2024-06-06T13:20:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T16:20:00","slug":"english-brazilian-competition-case-law-trade-trends-december-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cascione.com.br\/en\/english-brazilian-competition-case-law-trade-trends-december-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazilian Competition Case Law, Trade &#038; Trends | December 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3643\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cascione.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/info_concorrencial_Brazilian-Competition-Case-Law-copia-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\" \/><\/h1>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"tag-concorrencial\">ANTITRUST &amp; COMPETITION<\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Brazilian Federal Senate approves Commissioners nominations to CADE<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>On December 12, 2023, Brazil\u2019s Federal Senate approved the nominations of Camila Cabral Pires Alves, Carlos Jacques Vieira Gomes, Diogo Thomson de Andrade and Jos\u00e9 Levi Mello do Amaral J\u00fanior to hold the positions of Commissioners at the Tribunal of the Administrative Council for Economic Defense (\u201cCADE\u201d), the Brazilian competition authority.<\/p>\n<p>When the nominees finally take office, the minimum quorum for deliberations by CADE\u2019s Tribunal will be restored. Indeed, CADE\u2019s Tribunal has lacked a quorum since the departure of the fourth Commissioner in early-November, which has hindered the closure of deals approved by CADE\u2019s General Superintendence and suspended all ruling sessions.<\/p>\n<p>See below for more information about the approved nominees:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Camila Cabral Pires Alves<\/b> is an associate professor at the Institute of Economics at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro \u2013 UFRJ. She holds master&#8217;s and PhD degrees in Economics from that same university. Camila held the position of CADE\u2019s Chief Economist between 2011 and 2013;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Carlos Jacques Vieira Gomes<\/strong> is a legislative consultant for the Federal Senate. He holds a master\u2019s degree in law from the University of Bras\u00edlia (UNB) and teaches at postgraduate courses. He participated in the drafting of Law No. 12,529\/11, which structured the current Brazilian Competition Defense System;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Diogo Thomson de Andrade<\/strong> is CADE\u2019s current Deputy Superintendent and has been working at CADE since 2007. Diogo is a federal prosecutor and holds a master&#8217;s degree from the Pontifical Catholic University of S\u00e3o Paulo (PUC\/SP) and a PhD degree from the Brazilian Institute of Education, Development and Research (IDP);<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jos\u00e9 Levi Mello do Amaral J\u00fanior <\/strong>is Secretary General of the Presidency of the Superior Electoral Court and held the positions of Brazil\u2019s Federal Attorney General and Attorney General of the National Treasury in the past. He holds a master\u2019s degree from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRS) and a PhD degree from the University of S\u00e3o Paulo (USP), where he teaches Constitutional Law.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>CADE develops a system that automates merger notifications <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>CADE announced the launch of <u>e-Notifica<\/u>, an automated system of pre-merger review. The e-Notifica system is expected to speed up the filing and review processes \u2013 as the tool is integrated with Federal Government and CADE\u2019s databases \u2013 and to facilitate the payment of CADE\u2019s filing fee.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>MERCOSUR authorities launch Competition Yearbook of 2023 <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>In November, the competition authorities from Paraguay (CONACOM), Uruguay (CPDC), Brazil (CADE), and Argentina (CNDC) officially launched the \u201cMercosur Competition Yearbook 2023\u201d during the 11<sup>th<\/sup> Annual Meeting of the Competition and Trade Working Group of the Latin-American and Caribbean Economic System (SELA).<\/p>\n<p>The document is the result of the MERCOSUR authorities joint effort and aims to be a consultation platform for the Competition Law of MERCOSUR and each member state, and enhance communication and cooperation between MERCOSUR member states, fostering debate and exchange of ideas.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"tag-concorrencial\">INTERNATIONAL TRADE<\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">SECEX issues new public interest assessment proceedings for trade defense measures<\/h3>\n<p>The Foreign Trade Secretariat (\u201cSECEX\u201d) issued a new regulation (SECEX Ordinance No. 282\/2023) on the assessment of public interest (\u201cAPI\u201d) in the context of antidumping and compensatory measures investigations. This regulation, which deeply changes the current API that may prompt a suspension or change of definitive trade defense measures and the non-imposition of provisional measures based on \u201cpublic interest\u201d reasons, will come into force on January 1, 2024, and aims to simplify the API procedure and ensure a better allocation of public resources.<\/p>\n<p>Among the changes, we highlight the following: (i) limitation of the API scope to two groups of concerns (i.a) \u201cSocial-Economic\u201d and (i.b) \u201cSuspension or Interruption of the National Supply\u201d; (ii) the API will be concluded after the authority\u2019s decision in the trade defense investigation; (iii) more efficiency in the authority\u2019s analysis; and (v) introduction of new rules that regulate the procedures pertinent to requests for reapplication, extension or reassessment of the change and\/or suspension of the decision based on public interest.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Brazilian Federal Senate approves Bolivia\u2019s admission to MERCOSUR<\/h3>\n<p>On November 28, 2023, Brazil\u2019s Federal Senate approved Bolivia\u2019s admission to MERCOSUR, concluding the proceedings initiated through an adhesion protocol in 2015. To date, Bolivia was associated to MERCOSUR \u2013 as is Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Guyana, and Suriname \u2013, but its acceptance as member required legislative approval by all MERCOSUR\u2019s members and Brazil was the last one pending. Hereof, trade between Bolivia and Brazil is expected to rise.<\/p>\n<p>Bolivia will be gradually integrated during the next four years and shall adapt its international trade policy. Specifically, the country will adopt MERCOSUR Common Nomenclature \u2013 NCM, as well as MERCOSUR\u2019s Common External Tariff \u2013 TEC and Origin Regime. Moreover, Bolivia will revise its bilateral trade agreements according to MERCOSUR\u2019s regulation; this shall embrace the termination of its agreement with Venezuela, suspended from the bloc since 2016.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Denise Junqueira<\/strong><br \/>\ndjunqueira@cascione.com.br<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Brazilian Competition Case Law, Trade &amp; Trends | December 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANTITRUST &amp; COMPETITION Brazilian Federal Senate approves Commissioners nominations to CADE On December 12, 2023, Brazil\u2019s Federal Senate approved the nominations of Camila Cabral Pires Alves, Carlos Jacques Vieira Gomes, Diogo Thomson de Andrade and Jos\u00e9 Levi Mello do Amaral J\u00fanior to hold the positions of Commissioners at the Tribunal of the Administrative Council for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-concorrencial.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brazilian-competition-case-law","category-concorrencial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cascione.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cascione.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cascione.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cascione.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cascione.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5742"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cascione.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6192,"href":"https:\/\/www.cascione.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5742\/revisions\/6192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cascione.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cascione.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cascione.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}