Administrative Tribunal

The Administrative Tribunal for Economic Defense is composed by a President and six Commissioners, all of them with a four year term, prohibited the renewal procedure. The main attributions of the Tribunal are:

• To judge administrative proceedings of anti-competitive conducts

• To judge merger cases with recommendation from the General Superintendence for remedies or for disapproval

• To claim and judge merger cases approved without restriction by the General Superintendence

• To analyze and judge merger cases in which there was appeal by third parties against the decision issued by the General Superintendence

• To approve Cease and Desist Agreements – TCC in its acronym in Portuguese – and Merger Control Agreements – ACC in its acronym in Portuguese – and to determine to the General Superintendence to monitor the fulfillment of these Agreements 

• To appreciate, on appeal level, preventive measures adopted by the Reporting Commissioner or by the General Superintendence

• To elaborate and approve CADE’s Internal Statute – RICADE – which organizes CADE’s functioning, means of deliberations, rules of procedure and the organization of CADE’s internal services

The President has the attributions of representing the authority and of responding for its administrative management. The President also chairs the Tribunal and the judgement sessions and determines the organization of the Tribunal’s agenda. Moreover, the President also chairs the distribution sessions, in which the proceedings are assigned to the Commissioners by drawing lots.