Chile’s National Economic Prosecutor’s Office (FNE) has told the country’s competition tribunal that the bidding rules governing the Casino de Viña del Mar tender do not create barriers to competition, dealing a setback to the operator group that triggered the review.
The submission was filed with the Tribunal for the Defence of Free Competition (TDLC), which is considering a non-contentious consultation brought by Inversiones Marina del Sol over whether the technical bases established by the Superintendency of Gaming Casinos (SCJ) for the Iquique, Coquimbo, Pucón and Viña del Mar tenders comply with Chile’s competition law, DL 211.
Marina del Sol argued that special conditions authorized under the third transitional article of the Casino Law went beyond what was necessary to achieve the public policy objectives established under the regulatory framework.
