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Radio Taxi Murcia and Tele Taxi Ciudad de Murcia the main platforms for telephone hiring of taxi services in the region adopted a coordinated commitment to penalize those taxi drivers who provide services to other intermediation companies and to not admit taxi drivers expelled for failing to comply with the agreement in any of the entities for a period of 3 years SAMUR0222 .The agreement was in force from December 1 2016 until July 2 2019 when Teletaxi Ciudad de Murcia was dissolved. Radio Taxi Murcia in execution of the agreement sanctioned several of its partners and even expelled one of them.Through the collective agreement both entities eliminated the independence of action that is required in competitive markets and they did so with a clear objective consisting of preventing their taxi drivers from providing services to third-party companies that they consider to be intruders in the market. The practices were disproportionate and used a repressive and dissuasive system.The power of the companies in the market was decisive for the effectiveness of the agreement since between them they brought together practically all the taxi licenses 92.38 of the total during the infringing period so those taxi drivers who failed to comply with the agreed conditions were bound to be left out of the telephone taxi request system in the municipality of Murcia from which they derive a significant part of their income.It is an agreement between competitors with a clear anti-competitive purpose prohibited by article 1 of Law 152007 of July 3 on the Defense of Competition.sanctions imposedFor all this the CNMC has imposed the following fines Radio Taxi Murcia 31174 euros equivalent to 5.5 of the cooperatives turnover in 2022.The dissolution of TeleTaxi de Murcia in 2019 prevents it from being sanctioned for participation in the cartel.Instruction and resolution of the fileThe file began after several complaints filed by taxi professionals in the Region of Murcia. Pursuant to Law 12002 of February 21 on the Coordination of the Competences of the State and the Autonomous Communities in matters of Defense of Competition the investigation of the file has been carried out by the Regional Service for the Defense of Competition of the Region of Murcia while the Resolution and the imposition of the sanctions correspond to the CNMC.
