Anticompetitive practices how the european antitrust enforcement has influenced the enforcement of the brazilian competition law

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antitrust enforcement, globalized competition enforcemen, European Commission, comparative law

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Alana de Marchi Garcia

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This study analyzes the influence of the European Competition enforcement on the Brazilian Competition enforcement. The main object of the present article is to investigate if there are means apart from legal instruments to promote more cohesive and
uniform antitrust enforcement in cases that involve different competition authorities and when similar matters are dealt with. For this purpose, this study examines the Brazilian Antitrust enforcement, and thirteen cases are scrutinized in order to understand how the European Commission experience has influenced the Superintendency General and the Brazilian Commissioners when analyzing cases brought to their attention. This study concludes that the European Commission experience is analyzed in different scopes by the Brazilian Competition Authority and is used to strengthen arguments when similarities between the cases are proven. This article will be divided by the topics in which the Brazilian Commissioner’s and the Superintendence General found the European experience relevant and applied it for their reasoning

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Garcia, A. de M. (2024). Anticompetitive practices: how the european antitrust enforcement has influenced the enforcement of the brazilian competition law. Revista Do IBRAC, (1), 28–50. Retrieved from https://revista.ibrac.org.br/index.php/revista/article/view/253
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Author Biography

Alana de Marchi Garcia

Advogada em Brasília com enfoque em direito concorrencial. Possui LLM na European Legal Studies at
the College of Europe.

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