The Constitutional Court ruled (TC-380-18, published on 10 October 2018) that at least four government ministries and the National Police have failed to take action to end the monopoly and anti-competitive practices in cargo and passenger transport, as determined by a ruling of the Superior Administrative Court (TSA) in 2016. The Constitutional Court considered that the lack of regulation of that economic sector does not give its players the right to affect the competitiveness and development of others. The Constitutional Court says that the ministry of Labor, Industry & Commerce, Defense, Interior & Police and the National Police are not doing their job in regulating the transport sector.
He indicated that this situation has violated the fundamental rights of freedom of business, freedom of contract, free competition and freedom of transit of members of the National Business Council (Conep), an entity that in 2016 filed an action for protection of compliance before the Superior Administrative Court (TSA) demanding that the state institutions be ordered to enforce the legal norms that prohibit monopoly, which was accepted by the court and now confirmed by the Constitutional Court.
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Constitutional Court
Listin Diario
17 October 2018
