La Defensa de la competencia en el modelo autonómico: el modelo catalán

Antitrust Policy is a guiding of the social economy of the market. Since 1890 by the Sherman Act enactment in the United States, the Defence of Competition is part of the economic policy in the developed countries. In the Spanish State, after the 208/1999 ruling of the Constitutional Court, the application of the antitrust policy has been partially decentralised. Catalonia was the first autonomous community that created its own institution to defend the antitrust policy. Its experience shows the importance of these instruments, whose proximity and knowledge of the market, make easy the persecution of the restrictive behaviour of Antitrust, drive to a major liberalisation of the different markets, and finally, promote with efficacy the Antitrust culture in the whole society.