CNMC advises on competitive neutrality in packaging waste management

The Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC) has issued recommendations on the draft framework agreement for packaging waste management in Spain.

• The CNMC advises establishing a nationally agreed management model for all public administrations, avoiding complex mixed models, and recommends creating an independent coordination and supervision body to manage conflicts and coordinate SCRAPs. It also suggests using market share quotas calculated by an independent public entity to assign responsibilities and ensuring competitive neutrality in agreement negotiations.
• The CNMC highlights the need to define cost allocation methods, billing forms, and coordination mechanisms among SCRAPs, and proposes arbitration alternatives and qualified majority rules for decision-making within the monitoring commission.