Competition Law and Policy in El Salvador
Subtitle: Peer Review
By: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and Inter-American Development Bank
Contributors: Inter-American Development Bank
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]:
Number of pages: 50
ISBN-13: 9789264056145
Subjects: Finance and Investment
Description: El Salvador’s first competition law took effect on 1 January 2006. The law, following some important amendments in 2007, is sound in most respects. It employs enforcement standards that are consistent with best practices in the worldwide competition community. It provides the new competition agency, La Superintendencia de Competencia (Superintendency) with the powers that it needs to enforce the law effectively. In less than three years El Salvador is off to a good – one might say excellent – start. Its experience can serve, in some ways at least, as an example of an effective way to begin to implement a competition policy...