The Supreme Court Supports the Fne in Dispute Against Universities in Case of Request for Information

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A study by the National Economic Prosecutor’s Office (FNE) generated resquemors in certain universities because of the information they were asked to do. A fact that, at the time, motivated the University of Santiago (Usach), the University of Chile (UCh) and the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC) to resort to justice in order to go against FNE applications in the framework of the “Market Study on Higher Education”. However, the Supr…

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The National Economic Prosecutor, Jorge Grunberg, valued the decision of the highest court, stressing that “this decision confirms that the FNE has acted in accordance with the powers that the law has granted it to require information from economic agents to defend and promote free competition in the markets.” The Supreme Court confirmed the judgements handed down by the First Chamber of the Santiago Court of Appeal that rejected, by unanimity o…