The Colombian Antitrust Authority announced last week that, with immediate effect, they would start to publish through social media all the pre-evaluation procedures that occur.
This policy has been implemented with the intention of taking advantage of the reach social media holds, giving greater publicity to possible economic integrations so that, in accordance with the legal procedure, any interested third party could present evidence or relevant information they deem the authority should analyze.
These new publications do not replace the obligation the entity holds to publish said procedures through their web page, which means the new system is not a notification mechanism.
In the announcement in which the authority presented this new measure, they also informed the public that on the 22nd of January, they had begun analyzing three new pre-evaluation procedures: one in the telecommunications sector, one in the pharmaceutical sector, and one related to supermarkets.