On 16 September 2013, the new Board of the Competition Authority (“CA”) took office, headed by Professor António Ferreira Gomes and, as members, by Mr. Nuno Rocha de Carvalho and Professor Jaime Andrez (member of the precedent Board that will continue in the Board during the initial period of this mandate).
The new Board has already adopted one of its first measures, approving a new organization of the services, including the appointment of new Directors and, it should be emphasized, creating a Cartel task force. After much criticism has been directed at the former Board of the CA for relaxing competition law enforcement, a new phase of better enforcement of the competition rules is now expected.
