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The Competition Council will hold a meeting on Tuesday 21 July to examine the referral registered under number 112 / S / 16 relating to anti-competitive practices in the fuel market. The body will thus debate a final investigation report completed last May.
Meanwhile, parts of this document have been relayed by the media. In its investigation, “the rapporteur Mohamed Hicham Bouayad, proposes to the Council of competition to inflict 4 million DH on the professional association of the oil tankers” (GPM), writes L’Economiste. This specifies that this financial penalty “corresponds to the legal maximum” provided for by article 39 of the law on the freedom of prices and competition.
“Several motivations support this proposition,” it continues, citing “the gravity of the practices in question, the damage caused to the economy and to consumers as well as the restrictive effect on competition amplified by the combined nature of the other restrictive practices to competition ”.
For its part, Médias 24 notes that anti-competitive practices concern “all the operators who are members of the GPM and who represent almost the entire market”. The rapporteur suggests that council members impose a “financial penalty corresponding to 10%” on the national turnover of petrol tankers before tax.
The report also proposes to adopt “any measure of a structural or behavioral nature, such as to put an end to the competitive dysfunctions noted”.
And to recall that this procedure follows a referral registered on November 15, 2016, jointly filed by the Democratic Confederation of Labor (CDT) and the Union of Professional Trade Unions of the transport sector in Morocco.
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