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Reforms to the Mexican competition law – Cofece and IFT extinction

27 August 2025

Key takeaways

Following the approval from the Senate last Saturday, June 28, the Chamber of Deputies approved on July 1, 2025 the bill proposed by Federal Executive to reform the current Mexican Antitrust Act (Federal Economic Competition Law) dated 2014, in line with the 2024 “organic simplification” constitutional reform

Following the approval from the Senate last Saturday, June 28, the Chamber of Deputies approved on July 1, 2025 the bill proposed by Federal Executive to reform the current Mexican Antitrust Act (Federal Economic Competition Law) dated 2014, in line with the 2024 “organic simplification” constitutional reform. With the Congressional approval, the reform decree was sent to the Executive Branch for publication. We estimate that this reform will be published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) in the following days.

Chapter 1 Chapter title

During the legislative process, some deputies and senators proposed alternative reforms, but the Congress finally opted to approve President Claudia Sheinbaum's reform that seeks to reform some aspects of the 2014 law.

The key points of this reform, in light of the 2024 constitutional reform that ordered the disappearance of the Federal Economic Competition Commission (Cofece) and the Federal Electoral Institute (IFT), are summarized as:

New authority: A new authority is created that will be in charge of applying the Mexican competition policy, coordinating some of its powers with the new Agency for Digital Transformation and Telecommunications (Agency), as well as the new Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (CRT);
Strengthened Law: Certain aspects of the Federal Economic Competition Law are strengthened, through the increase of sanctions, the reduction of thresholds for the control of concentrations, the simplification of civil actions for damages, among other aspects; and
New facet of competition policy: A new facet of the Mexican competition policy beings, since Mexico adopted, for the first time in the early nineties, several obligations provided in the now extinct Free Trade Agreement with the United States and Canada.

Chapter 2

During the legislative process, some deputies and senators proposed alternative reforms, but the Congress finally opted to approve President Claudia Sheinbaum's reform that seeks to reform some aspects of the 2014 law.

The key points of this reform, in light of the 2024 constitutional reform that ordered the disappearance of the Federal Economic Competition Commission (Cofece) and the Federal Electoral Institute (IFT), are summarized as:

New authority: A new authority is created that will be in charge of applying the Mexican competition policy, coordinating some of its powers with the new Agency for Digital Transformation and Telecommunications (Agency), as well as the new Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (CRT);
Strengthened Law: Certain aspects of the Federal Economic Competition Law are strengthened, through the increase of sanctions, the reduction of thresholds for the control of concentrations, the simplification of civil actions for damages, among other aspects; and
New facet of competition policy: A new facet of the Mexican competition policy beings, since Mexico adopted, for the first time in the early nineties, several obligations provided in the now extinct Free Trade Agreement with the United States and Canada.

Next steps

During the legislative process, some deputies and senators proposed alternative reforms, but the Congress finally opted to approve President Claudia Sheinbaum's reform that seeks to reform some aspects of the 2014 law.

The key points of this reform, in light of the 2024 constitutional reform that ordered the disappearance of the Federal Economic Competition Commission (Cofece) and the Federal Electoral Institute (IFT), are summarized as:

New authority: A new authority is created that will be in charge of applying the Mexican competition policy, coordinating some of its powers with the new Agency for Digital Transformation and Telecommunications (Agency), as well as the new Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (CRT);
Strengthened Law: Certain aspects of the Federal Economic Competition Law are strengthened, through the increase of sanctions, the reduction of thresholds for the control of concentrations, the simplification of civil actions for damages, among other aspects; and
New facet of competition policy: A new facet of the Mexican competition policy beings, since Mexico adopted, for the first time in the early nineties, several obligations provided in the now extinct Free Trade Agreement with the United States and Canada.