During September, the Commission processed 123 matters, of which 73 correspond to mergers, 28 to proceedings for monopolistic practices and unlawful mergers, 4 to special procedures. and 18 to opinions on bidding processes, concessions, and permits.

Complaints, investigations, and trial-like proceedings

• 5 complaints were analyzed, 2 of which were filed during the period. Of these, 2 were dismissed and 3 were still under analysis at the end of the month.
• 16 investigations for monopolistic practices and unlawful mergers were followed up on.
• 7 trail-like proceedings were followed up, one of which concluded with the imposition of sanctions for more than 237 million pesos on the economic agents responsible for manipulating prices in the waterproofing market and disqualified five executives involved in the conduct. At the end of the period, 6 proceedings were still in process.
• 4 special procedures were followed up to determine the existence of essential facilities and barriers to competition; 1 move into a second stage after concluding, on a preliminary basis, that there are no competition conditions in the nixtamalized corn flour market.

Mergers

• 73 mergers were followed up, 19 of which were notified during the period. Of these transactions, 15 were authorized, two were closed due to the withdrawal of the notifying parties, and 56 were still under analysis at the end of the period.¹ 
• The amount of authorized transactions was $41,097.5 million pesos.