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Tag: Competition Council
Morocco’s competition council fines fuel distribution companies $180 mln for price fixing
Morocco’s competition council issued a fine of 1.8 billion dirhams or 180 million dollars against nine fuel supply, distribution, and storage companies for their failure ... Read More
Morocco’s competition council to re-examine dysfunctions in fuel distribution market
Morocco’s competition council said it will look again into the dysfunctions marring the fuel distribution market which has spilled so much ink due to its ... Read More
Morocco’s competition council approves Akwa’s acquisition of Total Mauritanie
Morocco’s competition council approved the acquisition by Morocco’s Akwa Africa, a subsidiary of Akwa group, of Total Energies fuel distribution subsidiary in Mauritania. The council ... Read More
New institutional report reveals dysfunctions in Morocco’s fuel market
Morocco’s competition council has issued a new report detailing facets of dysfunctions in the fuel market from the upstream to the downstream, citing notably the ... Read More
Morocco’s competition council delivers its first sanction against Swiss Sika Ag
Morocco’s competition council fined Switzerland’s Sika Ag for its non-compliance with local competition law, the first sanction delivered by the regulator since its creation. Sika ... Read More
Morocco’s King appoints new heads of competition council, court of auditors
King Mohammed VI appointed Ahmed Rahhou new head of the competition council and Zineb Al Adaoui head of the court of auditors. Rahhou succeeds to ... Read More
New development model should end oligopoly and foster fair competition – regulator says
The competition council called for putting an end to monopolies that created an oligopolistic situation in Morocco, citing the sectors of fuel distribution, banks, insurance ... Read More
Towards harmonization of Moroccan & EU economic, competition laws
Morocco and the European Union will conduct a joint study on the harmonization of Moroccan and EU economic and competition laws. A partnership in this ... Read More
Morocco, WB team up to improve business competition
Morocco’s competition council and the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation agreed to cooperate to promote the competitiveness of the private sector. The partnership was sealed ... Read More
PJD Minister faces media backlash after failing to impose fuel price caps
Islamist PJD governance minister Lahcen Daoudi is subject to fierce criticism after he failed to uphold his promise of imposing caps on prices of fuel. ... Read More