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Date of Publication:
23 July 2019
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OECD Competition Assessment Reviews: Mexico 2019
Mexican Competition Assessment in the Gas Sector: This report identifies and evaluates market regulations along the vertical supply chains in the gas sector, covering: natural gas and its extraction, processing, transportation, distribution to final consumers, and manufacturing of basic petrochemical products from natural gas; as well as liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and its extraction, processing, storage, transportation and distribution to final consumers.
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Date of Publication:
29 April 2019
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Competition Policy in the Mexican Grocery Retail Industry
This report analyses the grocery retail industry in Mexico, emphasising the activity of competition authorities and the impact of regulatory measures impacting the industry. To conclude, it provides a series of recommendations to be considered in the Mexican framework.
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Date of Publication:
30 January 2019
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The divestiture of assets as a competition remedy: Stocktaking of international experiences 2019
This report serves as a reference document to relevant Mexican Authorities highlighting international experiences and best practices. It describes the different types of remedies available and their objectives, advantages and disadvantages and the principles driving authorities in choosing this approach. Moreover, this report could also provide guidance to business and consumer groups about how the competition authorities may order asset divestiture as a structural separation remedy.
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Date of Publication:
24 October 2018
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Standard Setting and Competition in Mexico 2018
This report first describes the anti and pro-competitive effects of standards to then analyse the Mexican standardisation process to issue both technical regulations and standards.
It also offers an overview of the best regulatory practices in standards setting and a guidance to analyse the impact of standards in the market while providing a series of recommendations to improve the Mexican standardisation process
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Date of Publication:
25 October 2018
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Individual and Collective Private Enforcement of Competition Law: Insights for Mexico 2018
This Report provides an overview of international practices regarding private competition enforcement.
It identifies and discusses the various elements that frame successful private competition enforcement regimes around the world, and compiles international experiences in this respect. It concludes with a number of recommendations for Mexico as it seeks to implement a fair, effective and manageable system of private competition enforcement.
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Date of Publication:
25 October 2018
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Digital platforms and competition in Mexico 2018
Technological advances, together with increased internet penetration, have created the perfect environment for the development of digital platforms in Mexico and these platforms raise new regulatory and competitive challenges.
This report provides a general description of the main economic features of digital platforms in Mexico, focusing e-commerce, FinTech and ride-sourcing applications. It also addresses the main challenges competition authorities may face when handling cases concerning digital platforms
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Date of Publication:
25 October 2018
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Fighting Bid Rigging in IMSS procurement: Impact of OECD Recommendations
IMSS is the largest social-security system in Mexico. It is also the second largest public procurer and by far the country’s largest public buyer of health products. In 2011, the OECD made more than 20 recommendations to IMSS on how to improve procurement procedures to avoid collusion among suppliers. Five years later, in 2016, IMSS invited the OECD to assess the status and implementation of the 2011 recommendations and to analyse their impact on procurement outcomes.
This report assesses the status and implementation of the 2011 OECD recommendations, analyses the impact of the changes in IMSS procurement practices on procurement processes and provides an action plan on how to implement any unadopted recommendations and further improve IMSS’s procurement practices
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Date of Publication:
10 January 2018
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Fighting Bid Rigging in Mexico: A review of CFE procurement rules and practices
The Mexican Electricity Federal Commission (Comisión Federal de Electricidad, CFE) is at a key juncture in its long history. The 2013 reform of the energy sector opened the activities of generation and sale of electricity to private investments, pushing CFE to seek further efficiencies and cost savings to respond to the increasing competition that it will be facing in the near future from domestic and foreign competitors.
After a first report issued about CFE's procurement system, CFE has once again asked the OECD to analyse if its procurement regime is aligned with the recommendations of the 2015 CFE Report.
The 2018 OECD report was launched in Mexico on 10 January 2018 by OECD SG Gurría, the Mexican Minister of Energy Pedro Joaquín Coldwell and CFE’s Director General Jaime Hernández Martínez.
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Background
Mexico has partnered with the OECD to improve its procurement practices and step up its fight against bid rigging through the implementation of the OECD Guidelines for Fighting Bid Rigging in Public Procurement.
Several reports resulting from these partnerships have been issued to date. Access all reports
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Date of Publication:
09 January 2018
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Competition Assessment Reviews: Mexico
Many of Mexico’s product markets remain among the most heavily regulated in the OECD. These structural flaws adversely affect the ability of firms to effectively compete in the markets and hamper innovation, efficiency and productivity. Against this backdrop, this report analyses Mexican legislation in the medicine (production, wholesale, retail) and meat sector (animal feed, growing of animals, slaughterhouses, wholesale and retail) along the vertical supply chain.
Using the OECD Competition Assessment Toolkit to structure the analysis, the report reviews 228 pieces of legislation and identifies 107 legal provisions which could be removed or amended to lift regulatory barriers to competition. The analysis of the legislation and of the Mexican sectors has been complemented by research into international experience and consultation with stakeholders from the public and private sectors. The OECD has developed recommendations to remove or modify the provisions in order to be less restrictive for suppliers and consumers, while still achieving Mexican policy makers’ initial objectives. This report identifies the potential benefits of the recommendations and, where possible, provides quantitative estimates.
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9 April 2019 – This competition assessment of the poultry sector in the Mexican states of Jalisco and Sinaloa (English | Español) makes 19 recommendations for improving competitive conditions in the sector at the federal level. It complements the competition assessment of the Mexican meat sector at the federal level for chicken, beef and pork published in the 2018 OECD Competition Assessment Review of Mexico.
Background
Greece and Romania have already undergone a similar review of competition laws and regulations in selected sectors. Learn more at Competition Assessment Toolkit page.
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Date of Publication:
11 January 2017
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Fighting Bid Rigging in Public Procurement: A review of the procurement rules and practices of PEMEX in Mexico
PEMEX, one of the largest oil companies in the world with 150 000 employees and an annual budget in 2015 of about MXN 570 billion, is also the largest purchaser of goods and services in the Mexican public sector. In 2013, a reform opened the energy sector to competition while keeping the ownership of Mexico’s hydrocarbons under state control. Following this reform, PEMEX is subject to new procurement rules that aim to make procurement processes more efficient and effective.
The OECD analysed the new regime and procurement procedures of PEMEX. The resulting report presents the main findings and provides recommendations to promote competition and fight bid rigging in accordance with international best practices.
The report was launched on11 January 2017 in Mexico city in presence of OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría, PEMEX's DG José Antonio Gonzáles Anaya and José Antonio Meade Kuribreña, Mexico's Secretary of Finance.
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Background
Mexico has partnered with the OECD to improve its procurement practices and step up its fight against bid rigging through the implementation of the OECD Guidelines for Fighting Bid Rigging in Public Procurement.
Several reports resulting from these partnerships have been issued to date. Access all reports
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Date of Publication:
10 December 2016
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Market Examinations in Mexico: A manual by the OECD Secretariat
In the framework of an OECD project with the Mexican Ministry of Economy, this manual provides guidance on how to carry out an inquiry or examination into a particular market when there is a suspicion or indication that a market is not functioning well.
It explains what market examinations are as well as their purposes, intended outcomes and substantive content.
Although the manual describes the Mexican experience, it could be used as a non-binding proactive tool to be applied on a case-by-case basis on a standardised and flexible framework that seeks to provide greater clarity to procedures used in market examinations.
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Fighting bid rigging in government contracts in Mexico
Mexico has partnered with the OECD to improve its procurement practices and step up its fight against bid rigging. When Mexico's Social Security Department signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the OECD and Mexico's Competition Commission in January 2011, it became the first public agency in Mexico (and in the world) to formally commit to adopt and implement the OECD Competition Committee’s Guidelines for Fighting Bid Rigging in Public Procurement.
Four reports resulting from these partnerships have been issued to date.
See also:
2015 CFE Report | OECD-Mexico partnership page
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Competition Law and Policy in Mexico: A Peer Review (2004)
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A first OECD study of Mexico’s competition regime was made in 1998. In 2004, the Mexico underwent a peer review of its competition law and policy by the OECD Competition Committee which was funded by the Inter-American Development Bank. This study updates the 1998 report and assesses the development and application of competition law and policy until 2004.
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Studies from the OECD’s Regulatory Reform Programme (1998)
Mexico’s competition regime was first examined in 1998 as part of a larger OECD regulatory reform study. Two background reports on competition matters were issued:
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Latin American competition work
OECD work on Competition
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Other Latin American competition reviews
Competition home page
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As an OECD member since 1994, Mexico participates actively in Competition Committee meetings and Forums. In 2007, it hosted the 5th meeting of the OECD-IDB Latin American and Caribbean Competition Forum. The OECD also works closely with the Mexican government on a variety of projects in order to enhance competition policy and legislation, notably through implementation of the Competition Assessment Toolkit and the Guidelines for Fighting Bid Rigging in Public Procurement. 
