"Lawyers rule out changes in the law requested by Competition (with Gonçalo Anastácio and Sara Estima Martins)

"For SRS Partner Gonçalo Anastácio, it will only "make sense to adjust the law for clarification and full alignment with recent jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court And it would be wise to wait for the declaration of general mandatory fofa, after three concordant decisions of the TC".
As this lawyer recalls, "competition infringements are the economic offences punished with the highest fines in Portugal, without any parallel in other areas of law". Therefore, he adds "it is incomprehensible that the Supreme Court of Justice can never pronounce itself on appeal".
In Gonçalo Anastácio's opinion, "it is also essential, given the dimension, complexity and importance of the cases, that the first instance can have panels to judge each case and that they are solidly advised by specialised economic experts".

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The same perspective is, moreover, defended by Sara Estima Martins, Partner at SRS, when she says that "the PCA already has all the tools available to the most advanced authorities on the international scene Powers that, by the way, were significantly strengthened in August 2022, with the transposition of the ECN+ Directive".