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The constitutional energy amendment published in the Official Gazette on December 20 2013 transformed the Mexican energy market into a competitive market that enables private investment. As a result, gasoline and diesel prices will be liberalised after December 31 2017, as established by the new Hydrocarbon Law. In addition, the Hydrocarbon Law has enabled parties outside the Mexican Petroleum (Pemex) franchise model to sell gasoline and diesel since January 2015.

The Federal Economic Competition Commission recently released its Strategic Work Plan 2015. Among other things, the plan addresses one of the main issues facing antitrust regulation in Mexico: collaborations among competitors. The plan specifically commits to drafting, submitting to public consultation and ultimately issuing guidelines setting out the commission's criteria for assessing collaborations among competitors.

Tesis de Maestría. Rotterdam: Erasmus University, 2014

Legal privilege, generally recognized in common law, grants special protection to communications between lawyers and their clients with the aim of promoting the administration of justice by facilitating legal representation.

Recent amendments to Articles 6, 7, 27, 28, 73, 78, 94 and 105 of the Mexican Constitution in relation to competition and telecommunications matters were published in the Federal Official Gazette on June 11 2013 (for further details please see "Congress enacts constitutional amendments affecting competition").

In March 2013 President Enrique Peña Nieto and the coordinating deputies of several parliamentary groups(1) submitted to Congress an initiative to amend the telecommunications and competition regulatory framework in Mexico. The proposal introduces substantial changes to the institutional structure of the Federal Competition Commission, among other regulatory changes (for further details please see "Proposed constitutional amendments overhaul Federal Competition Commission").