Noción de la abogacía de la competencia: aproximación a los límites y las facultades de la superintendencia de industria y comercio frente a esta nueva figura

Abstract

One of the novelties in competition law was incorporated into Colombian legislation through law 1340 of 2009, known as Advocacy of Competition. However, its exercise and application is still very abstract, as well as the consecration of the aspects that regulate it, both in the normativity, as in the jurisprudence. With the present project, it’s pretended to study the figure of Advocacy of Competition in Colombia, that is, the nature of the institution, it’s origin and normative basis in current legislation, the criteria used by the Superintendencia de Industria y Comercio to emit previous concept to the government entities related to the intervention in the market. Likewise, it will analyze the scope of the faculties given by the legislator to the Superintendencia de Industria y Comercio in economic themes to intervene in regulations that may affect competition, and in the same way the limits that mark it’s possibility of intervention.