The president explained that the decentralized entity will have as its main responsibility to combat monopolies to promote competition in sectors such as digital ones, issues that are currently monitored by Cofece and not by the IFT, so it is not clear if the new body will have Among its powers is the regulation of telecommunications, the delivery of concessions and spectrum tenders.
Sheinbaum Pardo recognized that the creation of the new antitrust entity responds to the demand of the T-MEC Trade Agreement that requires an independent and technical body in the telecommunications sector, which is why the reform opinion it proposed had to be adjusted at the last minute. eliminate autonomous organizations and directly transfer their powers to state agencies.
“This is the objective of these organizations (IFT and Cofece). They come together in a single organization that is decentralized that has technical independence and that is how it is in the treaty (T-MEC trade agreement).
The new entity would not have the financial independence that autonomous organizations such as the IFT currently have to organize their regulatory activities. In addition, the president announced that the secondary laws will establish how the head will be appointed “whether it is directly by the Executive or has ratification by the Senate.”
One of the great victories of the autonomous entities was to prioritize the specialization and technical part of the personnel rather than the political, especially those who head the Institutions, in order to make decisions based on market research.
Today the Chamber of Deputies is expected to begin the discussion to eliminate the structure that autonomous entities have by constitutional mandate.
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