The Galician Competition Commission analyses the impact on competition of the extension of public service concessions by local entities

The Galician Competitioncom Commission (CGC) has published a working document in which it analyses how public action, through public service concessions and extensions of such administrative concessions, can affect competition and sets out a series of guidelines to achieve adequate tendering. This document has been published in the framework of an initiative launched by National…

The Catalan Competition Authority has opened a public call for companies to apply for the award of grants for the financing of compliance programmes in the field of competition.

On June 17th2022, Resolution of June 10th2022, of the President of the Catalan Competition Authority’s (ACCO), was published in the Official Journal of the Generalitat de Catalunya (DOGC), opening the deadline to apply for public subsidies to finance companies’ competition compliance programmes for which they can apply until July 29th 2022. The main purpose of…

New judgement of the Supreme Court about the principle of equality and the gender impact report in the processing of urban planning. STS 176/2022, of 11 February.

The Supreme Court has pronounced, in this judgement number 176/2022, of 11 February, about the application of article 65.1 of Law 29/1998, of 31 July, regulating contentious-administrative jurisdiction in relation to a case linked to the principle of equality in matters of urban planning and the requirement of a gender impact report. In fact, in…

THE BARCELONA CITY COUNCIL HAS APPROVED THE DRAFT SPECIAL PLAN OF USES LINKED TO E-COMMERCE AND HAS SUSPENDED THE ISSUANCE OF LICENSES FOR ACTIVITIES RELATED TO PREPARATION AND/OR SALE OF FOOD AND STORAGE.

Nota relativa al “Pla especial d’usos vinculats al comerç electrònic” L’11 de març de 2022, es va publicar al Butlletí Oficial de la Província de Barcelona (BOPB) l’acord de la Comissió de Govern de 10 de març del mateix any, pel qual s’aprova inicialment el Pla especial d’usos d’activitats vinculades al repartiment a domicili, o…

Chambers and Partners recognize Pareja i Advocats, Associats.

Chambers and Partners recognizes Pareja i Associats, Advocats, as one of the best law firms in Spain in the fields of planning and public law. Chambers and Partners again distinguishes Carles Pareja and Gemma Segura for their knowledge, experience and professional rigor in urban and public law, as well as for their communicative capacity. Chambers and Partners…