Claudio Lizana

The FNE recently published its statistics regarding its work in the field of merger control during 2024. Regarding the number of notified operations, the figures remain more or less the same as the previous year (32 in 2024 versus 35 in 2023). There is also other interesting information: in 2024, the FNE did not prohibit any merger operation, and only one investigation was extended to phase 2. Only two operations were approved with conditions.

The FNE resolved, on January 7, 2025, to close the investigation Rol N°2538-19 FNE, related to possible anticompetitive conducts of those indicated by article 3 paragraphs 1 and 2 letter a) of DL 211, in the fuel commercialization market in the municipalities of Quilpué and Villa Alemana, initiated on June 16, 2020 from the complaint of a private individual. Likewise, the FNE decided to order a new investigation to analyze in detail the effects on competition produced by the transparency of the information generated by the regulation through the publication of prices on the “Bencina en Línea” platform.