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Cristóbal Escobar | UNO Agency
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The Court of Defense of Free Competition (TDLC), sentenced the National Association of Professional Football (ANFP) to pay a fine of more than US$ 2,3 millones.
The sanction is for having required the teams of the Second Division of Chilean professional football, as a requirement to ascend to First B, to pay an incorporation fee of 24 thousand UF.
Through a document, they also explained from the TDLC that the immediate cessation of this collection was ordered.
“The TDLC fully accepted the accusation made in February 2018 by the National Economic Prosecutor’s Office (FNE) and affirmed that ‘the Incorporation Fee had the effect of limiting the competitive and sports capacity of the clubs that paid it’ and that this collection has constituted ‘an artificial barrier that hinders entry to the market or, in the event that entry is achieved, hinders the competitive performance of the entrant,’ ”the document states.
In this regard, the National Economic Prosecutor, Ricardo Riesco, noted that “this ruling eliminates conduct that has affected competition in national football and confirms that the work of the FNE and the free competition institution applies to all markets without distinction and to all kinds of conduct sanctioned by DL 211 , including those of a unilateral nature that do not involve agreements between competitors ”.
Finally, the judgment indicates that “in this sense, the TDLC concluded that the ANFP did not base its decisions regarding said Quota on reasoned arguments of an economic nature, let alone free competition.”
“Everything indicates that the decisions adopted within the Council of Presidents were based on the desire to protect the interests of the clubs that regularly participate in the First B championships,” the report concludes.
The TDLC accepted the FNE’s request against the ANFP, condemning it to pay a fine of US $ 2.3 million for having demanded that the teams, as a requirement to ascend to First B, pay a fee of UF 24,000 and ordered the immediate cessation of this charge. https://t.co/oiEB1iveLt pic.twitter.com/4oFi2Q2Oqb
— FNE_Chile (@ChileFne) June 26, 2020
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