Soft Law and competition policy: promoting competition through guidelines in Brazil

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7215826

Keywords:

Competition. Enforcement. Guidelines. Soft Law.

Abstract

This paper examines the use of soft law in competition policy. The focus is on the guidelines issued by the Brazilian competition authority in order to foster a better understanding of the competition law and enforcement approaches. The economic agents and their legal advisors benefit from these measures, as they increase the predictability and transparency of competition enforcement, facilitate self-assessment, and improve legal certainty for business transactions that often involve high monetary sums. From previous experience, these guidelines are often well perceived by local competition community as there is an increasingly concern with the objective of gathering information from interested parties to facilitate the drafting of higher quality documents through public consultations.

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Author Biography

Otávio Augusto de Oliveira Cruz Filho, Centro Universitário UniProcessus, DF, Brasil

[1] Otávio Augusto de Oliveira Cruz Filho is the Chief of Service of International Cooperation at the International Unit of the Brazilian Administrative Council for Economic Defense. He holds a Master’s degree in Public Administration from the University of Brasilia and is a postgraduate student in Economic Law and Competition at Fundação Getúlio Vargas.

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Published

2022-10-17

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Vol. 13 No. 45 (2022): Revista Processus de Estudos de Gestão, jurídicos e Financeiros

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