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Spain: Fine on electric companies overturned

By  |  April 7, 2015

Spain’s National Assembly has officially overturned a series of fines imposed by the CNMC on five electric companies accused of price-fixing and obstructing free competition.

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    The CNMC’s report included personal e-mails between company executives, which revealed a strategy meant to hamper the Government’s planned changes to the sector.

    The Assembly’s decision to overturn the fine hinges on a previous decision by the Supreme Court, which annulled the findings of a 2009 inspection to one of the accused companies.

    The companies involved have also been accused of engaging in information exchanges, allowing them to divide customers and raise local electricity prices.

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